Number 47

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

18times drawn · chance expected 18 +0.06σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

38longest completed wait · 13% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 7 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
5th smallest2 · chance 3.4
6th smallest16 · chance 14.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 8 22 29 4 13

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 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.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	1	6th	10 18 28 31 34 47
2026-09-12	10	6th	3 8 17 26 44 47
2026-08-08	11	6th	10 14 22 33 46 47
2026-07-01	10	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: 47 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.