Number 49

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

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.44σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

32longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 4 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 49 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 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest16 · chance 16.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 31 34 37 7 10

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	3	6th	4 5 23 34 48 49
2026-09-16	3	6th	4 23 28 31 37 49
2026-09-05	22	6th	17 23 27 31 46 49
2026-06-20	4	6th	3

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