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48
Number 48 In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 505 draws, 5 from 1–49.
21 times drawn · chance expected 52 −4.49σ
45 draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.9% for any number
22.5 average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
200 longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long
48 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 49 Drawn 21 times in 505 draws against 51.5 expected, −4.49σ. 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.
48 Number 48, draw by draw Drawn 21 times in 505 draws · average wait 22.5 draws · longest completed wait 200 · waiting 45 draws now
7 draws: 2025-06-03 to 2025-06-10 2 draws: 2025-06-10 to 2025-06-12 3 draws: 2025-06-12 to 2025-06-15 5 draws: 2025-06-15 to 2025-06-20 23 draws: 2025-06-20 to 2025-07-13 1 draws: 2025-07-13 to 2025-07-14 3 draws: 2025-07-14 to 2025-07-17 4 draws: 2025-07-17 to 2025-07-21 3 draws: 2025-07-21 to 2025-07-24 4 draws: 2025-07-24 to 2025-07-28 7 draws: 2025-07-28 to 2025-08-04 6 draws: 2025-08-04 to 2025-08-10 30 draws: 2025-08-10 to 2025-09-09 3 draws: 2025-09-09 to 2025-09-12 6 draws: 2025-09-12 to 2025-09-18 2 draws: 2025-09-18 to 2025-09-20 8 draws: 2025-09-20 to 2025-09-28 18 draws: 2025-09-28 to 2025-10-16 115 draws: 2025-10-16 to 2026-02-08 200 draws: 2026-02-08 to 2026-08-28 Still waiting — at least 45 draws since 2026-08-28 2025-06-03 2025-06-10 2025-06-12 2025-06-15 2025-06-20 2025-07-13 2025-07-14 2025-07-17 2025-07-21 2025-07-24 2025-07-28 2025-08-04 2025-08-10 2025-09-09 2025-09-12 2025-09-18 2025-09-20 2025-09-28 2025-10-16 2026-02-08 2026-08-28 2025-05-25 2026-10-12
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1st smallest 0 · chance 0.0 2nd smallest 0 · chance 0.0 3rd smallest 0 · chance 0.0 4th smallest 0 · chance 1.8 5th smallest 21 · chance 19.3 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.
Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it Under the crowd model, 48 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.
The model and its sources → · What people believe about 48 →
Every draw it appeared in ← number 47 Every number number 49 → 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: 48 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.