Number 1

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

14times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.95σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

34longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 2 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 1 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest14 · chance 14.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 7 17 18 4 23

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	34	1st	1 3 5 27 30 41
2026-06-06	1	1st	1 7 10 21 22 30
2026-06-03	26	1st	1 7 15 18 43 46
2026-03-04	1	1st

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