Number 48

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

86times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.68σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 56% for any number

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

44longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

48 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, +0.68σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 48, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 866 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 44 · 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 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 0.3
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.8
4th smallest27 · chance 28.6
5th smallest55 · chance 52.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

53 34 39 36 2 21

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, 48 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 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-23	22	5th	2 9 20 41 48
2026-03-22	2	4th	11 22 28 48 51
2026-03-08	14	4th	14 26 46 48 49
2025-11-30	10	3rd	27 41

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 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

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