Number 41

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

17times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.19σ

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

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 28 · 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 41 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.4
4th smallest1 · chance 2.7
5th smallest9 · chance 7.3
6th smallest7 · chance 6.5

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.

18 30 37 48 1 2

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 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.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	28	6th	1 3 5 27 30 41
2026-06-27	3	5th	3 14 28 33 41 44
2026-06-17	1	6th	5 18 19 28 30 41
2026-06-13	1	6th

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