Number 48

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

18times drawn · chance expected 18 +0.06σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

36longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

48 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 48, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 3 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 48 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 0.0
5th smallest3 · chance 1.9
6th smallest15 · chance 16.1

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.

29 2 7 17 21 22

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 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.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	6	6th	2 3 11 25 29 48
2026-09-09	1	6th	2 10 17 34 36 48
2026-09-05	36	6th	21 29 30 35 36 48
2026-05-02	4	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: 48 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.