Number 44

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

70times drawn · chance expected 80 −1.19σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 23% for any number

11.7average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

63longest completed wait · 15% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 70 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, −1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 70 times in 866 draws · average wait 11.7 draws · longest completed wait 63 · waiting 16 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 44 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 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.2
3rd smallest14 · chance 9.7
4th smallest27 · chance 29.5
5th smallest28 · chance 29.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 37 27 49 51 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-06-21	63	5th	13 17 23 37 44
2025-04-06	10	4th	3 8 14 44 50
2025-01-26	2	5th	8 26 35 39 44
2025-01-12	4	5th	20 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: 44 is drawn with probability 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

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