Number 41

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

85times drawn · chance expected 92 −0.76σ

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

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

34longest completed wait · 41% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 85 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, −0.76σ. 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 85 times in 642 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 34 · 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest9 · chance 10.4
6th smallest76 · chance 74.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 16 28 19 22 27

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 — 33rd most popular of 42. 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
2026-10-07	4	6th	2 8 19 36 37 41
2026-09-23	7	6th	7 8 15 19 29 41
2026-08-29	20	5th	13 15 17 20 41 42
2026-06-20	3	6th	9

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-05-17	6	6th	7 8 10 27 30 41
2025-04-26	1	6th	2 8 23 27 39 41
2025-04-23	18	5th	13 16 23 30 41 42
2025-02-19	1	6th	10 19 20 26 38 41
2025-02-15	19	5th	1 15 18 19 41 42
2024-12-07	34	6th	8 10 11 24 33 41
2024-08-10	7	6th	5 28 31 35 39 41
2024-07-17	16	6th	19 24 27 32 36 41
2024-05-22	28	6th	1 2 3 5 21 41
2024-02-14	14	5th	22 31 32 33 41 42
2023-12-27	2	5th	1 17 31 35 41 42
2023-12-20	21	6th	3 9 22 36 37 41
2023-10-07	3	6th	11 12 22 26 35 41
2023-09-27	8	6th	11 15 16 22 38 41
2023-08-30	11	6th	8 9 11 14 32 41
2023-07-22	1	6th	6 8 13 19 22 41
2023-07-19	1	6th	5 15 17 26 30 41
2023-07-15	4	6th	5 9 20 22 28 41
2023-07-01	2	6th	7 12 25 31 39 41
2023-06-24	4	6th	6 14 21 23 35 41
2023-06-10	1	6th	1 4 6 11 31 41
2023-06-07	1	6th	12 17 21 25 28 41
2023-06-03	2	6th	12 13 14 30 35 41
2023-05-27	1	6th	5 18 23 30 31 41
2023-05-24	3	6th	12 22 30 34 37 41
2023-05-13	1	6th	6 10 13 16 34 41
2023-05-10	4	6th	2 14 22 29 32 41
2023-04-26	5	6th	9 12 13 17 36 41
2023-04-08	1	6th	2 9 16 21 36 41
2023-04-05	24	6th	13 14 16 28 38 41
2023-01-11	24	5th	4 8 27 37 41 42
2022-10-19	8	6th	16 18 28 38 39 41
2022-09-21	7	6th	14 17 21 27 31 41
2022-08-27	1	6th	9 18 21 35 39 41
2022-08-24	2	6th	7 19 27 29 32 41
2022-08-17	1	6th	6 7 15 19 21 41
2022-08-13	27	6th	7 16 23 36 40 41
2022-05-11	4	6th	7 9 18 27 28 41
2022-04-27	1	6th	8 19 31 36 37 41
2022-04-23	10	6th	14 17 18 37 38 41
2022-03-19	1	6th	8 14 15 30 34 41
2022-03-16	15	6th	4 13 18 22 38 41
2022-01-22	3	6th	15 24 29 32 34 41
2022-01-12	31	6th	6 11 20 31 40 41
2021-09-22	1	6th	9 12 19 25 38 41
2021-09-18	16	6th	21 27 31 35 38 41
2021-07-24	8	6th	3 8 22 26 29 41
2021-06-26	7	6th	1 24 29 32 37 41
2021-06-02	14	6th	4 7 19 22 26 41
2021-04-14	2	5th	18 27 28 38 41 42
2021-04-07	4	6th	8 18 33 34 36 41
2021-03-24	9	6th	1 10 12 17 28 41
2021-02-20	2	6th	8 12 16 30 32 41
2021-02-13	3	6th	16 22 25 32 40 41
2021-02-03	1	6th	3 12 22 27 32 41
2021-01-30	11	6th	4 5 24 25 30 41
2020-12-23	15	6th	7 25 26 31 35 41
2020-10-31	2	6th	21 29 30 32 38 41
2020-10-24	4	6th	16 20 25 31 33 41
2020-10-10	13	6th	1 16 27 28 35 41
2020-08-26	—	6th	11 13 20 28 30 41