Number 46

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

12times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.30σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 80% for any number

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

21longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +0.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 46 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 0.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.6
4th smallest3 · chance 2.7
5th smallest3 · chance 5.1
6th smallest6 · chance 3.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 4 6 7 8 12

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 20 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	3	6th	3 4 6 7 12 46
2026-09-19	4	6th	6 23 24 32 44 46
2026-09-05	3	6th	3 4 7 31 42 46
2026-08-26	18	6th	3 8

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: 46 is drawn with probability 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.