Number 47

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

8times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.97σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

10.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

22longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.97σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 107 draws · average wait 10.6 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 9 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 47 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 smallest2 · chance 0.3
4th smallest1 · chance 1.6
5th smallest2 · chance 3.4
6th smallest3 · chance 2.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

20 22 49 14 33 34

Never drawn alongside 31 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 28 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 47 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 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-09	15	6th	12 22 24 34 45 47
2026-07-18	1	5th	10 25 40 41 47 48
2026-07-15	1	3rd	23 39 47 48 49 51
2026-07-11	6	6th	8 14

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