Number 47

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

13times drawn · chance expected 18 −1.20σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

11.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

25longest completed wait · 41% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −1.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws · average wait 11.4 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 5 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 47 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 0.1
5th smallest1 · chance 2.5
6th smallest12 · chance 10.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 31 11 27 33 37

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 47 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 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-23	6	5th	24 31 33 34 47 48
2026-09-02	4	6th	3 4 11 27 41 47
2026-08-19	23	6th	11 29 31 40 42 47
2026-05-30	11	6th	7

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: 47 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.