Number 19

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

17times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.19σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

19longest completed wait · 80% chance of one at least that long

19 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 19, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 16 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 19 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 smallest2 · chance 1.4
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest7 · chance 6.2
4th smallest3 · chance 3.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

22 27 39 45 7 10

Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 19 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-15	11	3rd	10 13 19 21 22 38
2026-07-08	2	1st	19 24 26 27 29 42
2026-07-01	4	3rd	10 13 19 28 40 47
2026-06-17	7	3rd

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