Number 46

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.19σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 3 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 46 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.4
5th smallest4 · chance 4.4
6th smallest13 · chance 12.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

37 9 43 45 6 11

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	7	6th	9 18 35 43 44 46
2026-09-05	6	5th	17 23 27 31 46 49
2026-08-15	13	6th	8 10 29 30 42 46
2026-07-01	14	6th	2

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 46 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.