Number 46

In Western Max under the 7/50 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 7 from 1–50.

14times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.51σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

28longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.51σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 6 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 46 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 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.9
6th smallest5 · chance 4.9
7th smallest9 · chance 8.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 11 13 44 3 20

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 50. 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-18	9	7th	5 18 23 27 40 43 46
2026-08-18	10	7th	4 12 16 17 22 40 46
2026-07-14	4	7th	7 11 13 22 26 40

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: 46 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.