Number 45

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

76times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.94σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

41longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

45 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −0.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 45, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 791 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 41 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 45 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 0.4
4th smallest9 · chance 12.3
5th smallest67 · chance 63.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 8 11 3 26 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 45 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 45 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-12	21	5th	4 7 19 26 45
2026-07-30	7	5th	1 4 13 24 45
2026-07-06	3	5th	3 4 15 26 45
2026-06-25	7	5th	1 9 26 28

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: 45 is drawn with probability 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-10-24	13	5th	2 11 29 37 45
2024-09-09	12	5th	4 6 32 35 45
2024-07-29	6	5th	6 8 11 24 45
2024-07-08	4	5th	11 34 35 44 45
2024-06-24	15	5th	20 32 33 43 45
2024-05-02	18	5th	5 10 14 35 45
2024-02-29	24	5th	4 6 28 29 45
2023-12-07	7	5th	2 3 37 39 45
2023-11-13	11	5th	3 11 33 38 45
2023-10-05	11	5th	5 6 18 39 45
2023-08-28	26	5th	2 30 36 39 45
2023-05-29	5	5th	4 11 14 41 45
2023-05-11	8	5th	16 19 22 31 45
2023-04-13	11	5th	7 8 14 17 45
2023-03-06	2	5th	3 20 24 42 45
2023-02-27	41	4th	23 28 34 45 46
2022-10-06	35	5th	3 4 24 40 45
2022-06-06	2	5th	9 17 32 41 45
2022-05-30	41	5th	8 16 37 43 45
2022-01-06	9	5th	9 27 34 40 45
2021-12-06	5	5th	16 18 21 22 45
2021-11-18	6	5th	18 28 39 42 45
2021-10-28	1	5th	3 9 21 29 45
2021-10-25	9	5th	15 31 36 43 45
2021-09-23	7	5th	4 27 38 43 45
2021-08-30	7	5th	20 29 33 43 45
2021-08-05	2	5th	12 24 26 35 45
2021-07-29	1	5th	8 32 37 40 45
2021-07-26	15	5th	2 10 26 38 45
2021-06-03	25	5th	8 26 39 40 45
2021-03-08	12	5th	2 16 28 32 45
2021-01-25	8	4th	6 17 36 45 47
2020-12-28	17	5th	2 4 22 37 45
2020-10-29	7	5th	17 26 27 38 45
2020-10-05	1	5th	21 34 39 41 45
2020-10-01	14	5th	1 8 9 20 45
2020-08-13	3	4th	33 35 37 45 47
2020-08-03	4	5th	15 16 33 36 45
2020-07-20	2	5th	7 12 17 32 45
2020-07-13	5	5th	4 10 18 19 45
2020-06-25	10	5th	3 16 18 20 45
2020-05-21	1	4th	3 4 19 45 46
2020-05-18	2	5th	6 17 23 43 45
2020-05-11	20	5th	24 25 26 31 45
2020-03-02	34	4th	8 28 39 45 47
2019-11-04	1	5th	10 26 32 43 45
2019-10-31	8	5th	28 30 32 35 45
2019-10-03	27	5th	6 11 32 43 45
2019-07-01	3	5th	3 11 21 35 45
2019-06-20	8	5th	6 10 27 40 45
2019-05-23	12	5th	15 21 31 44 45
2019-04-11	—	5th	5 7 41 44 45