Number 49

In Lotto America under the 5/52 + 1/10 · since Nov 2017 rules — 1,151 draws, 5 from 1–52.

96times drawn · chance expected 111 −1.47σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 82% for any number

11.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.4

51longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 1,151 draws against 110.7 expected, −1.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 1,151 draws · average wait 11.9 draws · longest completed wait 51 · waiting 3 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 49 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 smallest1 · chance 1.3
4th smallest28 · chance 19.9
5th smallest67 · chance 74.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 30 10 27 40 50

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, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	3	5th	12 13 21 40 49
2026-09-26	2	4th	22 27 31 49 51
2026-09-21	5	5th	22 23 33 45 49
2026-09-09	20	5th	3 4 44

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: 49 is drawn with probability 5/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

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