Number 48

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 234 draws, 5 from 1–58.

17times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.74σ

57draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.6% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

32longest completed wait · 64% chance of one at least that long

48 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws against 20.2 expected, −0.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 57 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 48, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 57 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 48 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 0.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.1
4th smallest7 · chance 7.0
5th smallest8 · chance 7.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 18 19 42 43 50

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 48 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th most popular of 58. 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 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-17	11	5th	3 6 33 42 48
2026-08-06	20	4th	7 20 42 48 51
2026-07-17	4	4th	3 19 38 48 58
2026-07-13	1	5th	19 36

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: 48 is drawn with probability 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.