Number 41

In Lotto America under the 5/52 + 1/10 · since Nov 2017 rules — 1,152 draws, 5 from 1–52.

107times drawn · chance expected 111 −0.38σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 49% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 10.4

77longest completed wait · 5% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 107 times in 1,152 draws against 110.8 expected, −0.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 107 times in 1,152 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 77 · waiting 8 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 0.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest16 · chance 18.4
4th smallest48 · chance 46.5
5th smallest40 · chance 39.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 16 8 23 31 44

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 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 — 34th most popular of 52. 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
2026-09-23	15	4th	13 24 32 41 48
2026-08-19	2	4th	23 31 40 41 45
2026-08-15	2	5th	8 18 19 40 41
2026-08-10	3	5th	16 19 33

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 5/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-03-01	2	5th	8 9 13 33 41
2025-02-24	2	5th	1 21 30 35 41
2025-02-19	2	5th	3 22 23 35 41
2025-02-15	12	4th	17 29 39 41 52
2025-01-18	4	3rd	16 28 41 47 52
2025-01-08	24	5th	4 15 33 39 41
2024-11-13	2	4th	11 23 29 41 42
2024-11-09	4	4th	14 31 34 41 48
2024-10-30	1	4th	27 30 37 41 50
2024-10-28	18	5th	1 10 22 28 41
2024-09-16	8	3rd	4 16 41 44 52
2024-08-28	3	3rd	7 28 41 46 52
2024-08-21	1	3rd	6 25 41 45 46
2024-08-19	4	3rd	16 21 41 48 49
2024-08-10	11	4th	6 19 40 41 42
2024-07-15	23	5th	1 7 10 40 41
2024-05-22	22	4th	2 5 15 41 43
2024-04-01	4	4th	6 16 32 41 44
2024-03-23	4	4th	5 7 12 41 52
2024-03-13	10	4th	23 33 34 41 50
2024-02-19	15	5th	4 14 31 37 41
2024-01-15	22	4th	28 29 38 41 52
2023-11-25	2	5th	3 11 18 38 41
2023-11-20	11	4th	10 14 24 41 51
2023-10-25	17	4th	3 8 27 41 46
2023-09-16	18	5th	23 30 34 40 41
2023-08-05	1	4th	1 36 38 41 43
2023-08-02	5	4th	1 18 33 41 51
2023-07-22	17	5th	1 20 23 36 41
2023-06-12	12	4th	1 29 32 41 46
2023-05-15	11	5th	9 16 33 38 41
2023-04-19	6	3rd	19 40 41 48 49
2023-04-05	5	5th	23 28 38 39 41
2023-03-25	6	4th	3 17 29 41 52
2023-03-11	4	3rd	33 39 41 45 48
2023-03-01	1	5th	8 14 17 38 41
2023-02-27	77	3rd	12 17 41 43 51
2022-08-31	55	3rd	4 22 41 43 52
2022-03-16	24	5th	2 16 34 40 41
2021-12-22	3	5th	5 20 21 33 41
2021-12-11	1	5th	8 10 17 26 41
2021-12-08	12	4th	2 11 17 41 46
2021-10-27	2	5th	1 5 27 36 41
2021-10-20	8	4th	8 17 20 41 51
2021-09-22	13	5th	3 16 35 37 41
2021-08-07	15	5th	2 6 34 38 41
2021-06-16	11	5th	1 14 22 28 41
2021-05-08	5	4th	4 32 34 41 44
2021-04-21	1	2nd	4 41 42 44 45
2021-04-17	30	5th	15 19 28 39 41
2021-01-02	2	5th	14 15 16 36 41
2020-12-26	14	4th	3 13 15 41 49
2020-11-07	3	5th	7 8 27 31 41
2020-10-28	10	4th	4 14 35 41 43
2020-09-23	22	4th	6 15 37 41 42
2020-07-08	10	3rd	7 33 41 45 51
2020-06-03	1	4th	7 22 28 41 46
2020-05-30	3	4th	3 17 31 41 45
2020-05-20	8	5th	10 13 22 35 41
2020-04-22	1	4th	11 12 16 41 42
2020-04-18	2	4th	2 15 18 41 48
2020-04-11	5	5th	11 22 32 34 41
2020-03-25	19	4th	6 33 36 41 48
2020-01-18	11	4th	5 7 31 41 43
2019-12-11	24	4th	23 29 34 41 51
2019-09-18	7	2nd	10 41 44 51 52
2019-08-24	6	3rd	5 6 41 42 44
2019-08-03	1	4th	8 18 27 41 43
2019-07-31	1	4th	4 13 21 41 46
2019-07-27	33	4th	11 12 32 41 47
2019-04-03	16	5th	8 19 28 35 41
2019-02-06	2	4th	1 15 35 41 47
2019-01-30	8	5th	6 10 23 38 41
2019-01-02	3	5th	6 10 18 19 41
2018-12-22	4	4th	1 16 20 41 44
2018-12-08	16	5th	8 19 24 31 41
2018-10-13	11	4th	34 36 40 41 42
2018-09-05	30	5th	13 20 26 30 41
2018-05-23	21	4th	7 11 24 41 42
2018-03-10	6	3rd	23 24 41 43 44
2018-02-17	4	2nd	40 41 47 49 51
2018-02-03	22	3rd	1 4 41 44 45
2017-11-18	—	4th	4 25 26 41 47