In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 505 draws, 5 from 1–49.
19times drawn · chance expected 52 −4.78σ
32draws waiting · a wait this long: 4% for any number
26.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
78longest completed wait · 0.5% chance of one at least that long
46 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 49
Drawn 19 times in 505 draws against 51.5 expected, −4.78σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.
46
Number 46, draw by draw
Drawn 19 times in 505 draws · average wait 26.0 draws · longest completed wait 78 · waiting 32 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.
Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.