Number 27

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 · May 2025 – Sep 2025 rules — 37 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

5times drawn · chance expected 5 +0.24σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

10longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 5 times in 37 draws against 4.5 expected, +0.24σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 5 times in 37 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 10 · waiting 12 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 27 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 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.5
4th smallest2 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 1.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 3 26 30 40 48

Never drawn alongside 29 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 29 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-08-13	4	4th	11 22 26 27 40 48
2025-07-30	3	3rd	1 21 27 30 43 48
2025-07-19	6	3rd	3 15 27 31 44 46

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: 27 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.