Number 41

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 866 draws, 5 from 1–54.

79times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.14σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

67longest completed wait · 12% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, −0.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 866 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 67 · waiting 1 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 0.2
2nd smallest5 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest13 · chance 16.4
4th smallest43 · chance 34.7
5th smallest18 · chance 24.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

53 38 3 4 24 42

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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 — 34th most popular of 54. 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
2026-10-04	6	4th	2 3 20 41 47
2026-08-23	5	4th	2 9 20 41 48
2026-07-19	3	5th	12 28 30 38 41
2026-06-28	4	4th	14 27

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 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-03-13	4	4th	7 32 38 41 49
2022-02-13	7	4th	5 22 34 41 52
2021-12-26	52	3rd	13 35 41 48 53
2020-12-27	26	4th	16 24 30 41 45
2020-06-28	20	4th	2 13 39 41 46
2019-12-01	6	4th	9 21 30 41 53
2019-10-20	15	4th	20 25 32 41 53
2019-07-07	12	5th	20 23 24 34 41
2019-04-14	15	5th	7 11 14 33 41
2018-12-30	1	4th	2 7 31 41 50
2018-12-23	12	2nd	38 41 46 47 53
2018-09-30	23	4th	11 26 37 41 47
2018-04-22	7	5th	11 13 24 26 41
2018-03-04	5	3rd	1 23 41 43 50
2018-01-28	19	4th	3 5 11 41 45
2017-09-17	10	5th	10 23 36 38 41
2017-07-09	12	4th	7 29 40 41 46
2017-04-16	3	5th	6 14 17 39 41
2017-03-26	8	5th	28 32 35 39 41
2017-01-29	3	3rd	15 40 41 49 51
2017-01-08	7	3rd	12 38 41 43 53
2016-11-20	47	4th	16 22 36 41 51
2015-12-27	19	4th	4 26 29 41 53
2015-08-16	9	5th	30 31 35 37 41
2015-06-14	20	5th	5 14 21 26 41
2015-01-25	7	3rd	11 23 41 45 54
2014-12-07	24	4th	10 22 38 41 53
2014-06-22	15	4th	5 22 28 41 51
2014-03-09	2	4th	9 17 32 41 48
2014-02-23	1	4th	4 20 34 41 42
2014-02-16	3	2nd	11 41 42 48 53
2014-01-26	2	3rd	34 39 41 43 54
2014-01-12	7	4th	20 25 33 41 42
2013-11-24	4	5th	9 17 21 37 41
2013-10-27	22	4th	4 24 39 41 48
2013-05-26	2	4th	6 7 32 41 51
2013-05-12	3	5th	5 12 14 23 41
2013-04-21	19	4th	25 28 31 41 51
2012-12-09	17	4th	10 35 37 41 49
2012-08-12	14	3rd	8 40 41 44 52
2012-05-06	3	5th	7 14 29 40 41
2012-04-15	11	4th	4 6 23 41 52
2012-01-29	2	5th	26 29 30 38 41
2012-01-15	3	5th	2 11 30 38 41
2011-12-25	2	4th	4 9 30 41 50
2011-12-11	18	4th	10 17 29 41 52
2011-08-07	7	5th	3 4 25 34 41
2011-06-19	34	4th	14 33 36 41 45
2010-10-24	5	3rd	3 23 41 47 53
2010-09-19	1	3rd	34 35 41 42 53
2010-09-12	25	4th	2 3 31 41 49
2010-03-21	2	4th	3 16 32 41 47
2010-03-07	2	2nd	38 41 47 49 53
2010-02-21	1	4th	17 26 37 41 50
2010-02-14	—	4th	8 25 29 41 49