Number 44

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

81times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.36σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 41% for any number

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

40longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 791 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 9 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.3
4th smallest19 · chance 18.4
5th smallest62 · chance 61.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 3 5 11 32 33

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 — 33rd most popular of 47. 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
2026-09-10	31	5th	2 11 23 43 44
2026-05-25	12	5th	3 14 21 28 44
2026-04-13	40	5th	12 13 19 25 44
2025-11-24	22	5th	15 23 40 43

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-10-19	2	5th	12 14 38 41 44
2023-10-12	1	4th	9 19 41 44 46
2023-10-09	7	5th	6 11 29 40 44
2023-09-14	3	5th	8 27 33 34 44
2023-09-04	20	4th	14 30 31 44 47
2023-06-26	5	5th	3 30 33 36 44
2023-06-08	2	5th	6 13 17 37 44
2023-06-01	3	5th	11 19 31 34 44
2023-05-22	7	4th	17 26 33 44 46
2023-04-27	3	5th	11 18 29 38 44
2023-04-17	6	5th	5 15 23 26 44
2023-03-27	2	4th	6 16 20 44 47
2023-03-20	12	5th	3 24 30 35 44
2023-02-06	36	5th	14 18 22 32 44
2022-10-03	7	5th	1 13 17 37 44
2022-09-08	10	5th	2 7 31 42 44
2022-08-04	10	4th	5 15 43 44 47
2022-06-30	3	5th	18 22 29 42 44
2022-06-20	14	4th	1 3 40 44 47
2022-05-02	8	4th	3 27 31 44 46
2022-04-04	2	4th	7 34 38 44 46
2022-03-28	3	4th	29 32 42 44 46
2022-03-17	1	5th	18 25 30 42 44
2022-03-14	11	5th	4 5 10 40 44
2022-02-03	11	4th	6 16 22 44 47
2021-12-27	1	4th	32 33 35 44 47
2021-12-23	19	5th	19 22 33 42 44
2021-10-18	2	5th	4 7 22 34 44
2021-10-11	4	5th	9 16 21 40 44
2021-09-27	3	5th	26 30 32 40 44
2021-09-16	1	5th	13 15 23 37 44
2021-09-13	16	5th	15 16 19 34 44
2021-07-19	28	4th	8 9 36 44 46
2021-04-12	7	5th	6 26 32 38 44
2021-03-18	1	4th	5 25 43 44 47
2021-03-15	3	5th	9 11 29 39 44
2021-03-04	5	5th	4 8 18 28 44
2021-02-15	10	5th	22 23 25 32 44
2021-01-11	3	5th	4 20 32 34 44
2020-12-31	7	5th	15 26 33 34 44
2020-12-07	10	5th	3 11 14 21 44
2020-11-02	13	5th	3 16 41 42 44
2020-09-17	3	5th	3 7 17 34 44
2020-09-07	17	5th	26 32 35 40 44
2020-07-09	6	5th	11 16 26 39 44
2020-06-18	7	5th	6 8 28 32 44
2020-05-25	5	5th	1 3 24 42 44
2020-05-07	34	5th	7 14 27 39 44
2020-01-09	3	4th	3 11 39 44 46
2019-12-30	37	5th	8 18 21 23 44
2019-08-22	19	5th	5 12 40 43 44
2019-06-17	6	5th	9 12 25 33 44
2019-05-27	1	5th	7 15 41 42 44
2019-05-23	1	4th	15 21 31 44 45
2019-05-20	11	5th	4 9 15 29 44
2019-04-11	4	4th	5 7 41 44 45
2019-03-28	—	5th	8 16 36 39 44