In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 504 draws, 5 from 1–49.
22times drawn · chance expected 51 −4.33σ
29draws waiting · a wait this long: 5% for any number
20.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
120longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long
47 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 49
Drawn 22 times in 504 draws against 51.4 expected, −4.33σ. 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.
47
Number 47, draw by draw
Drawn 22 times in 504 draws · average wait 20.9 draws · longest completed wait 120 · waiting 29 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.
Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.