Number 49

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 232 draws, 5 from 1–58.

17times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.70σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

13.4average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

45longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −0.70σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 232 draws · average wait 13.4 draws · longest completed wait 45 · 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 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 0.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.7
4th smallest5 · chance 6.7
5th smallest12 · chance 8.4

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.

29 3 5 21 30 35

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers 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 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-11	45	5th	35 43 44 45 49
2026-08-27	3	5th	3 7 29 35 49
2026-08-24	16	5th	7 19 26 41 49
2026-08-08	1	4th	2 5

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.