Number 29

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 111 draws, 6 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.17σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

31longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

29 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 29, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 111 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 1 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 29 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 1.0
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.3
4th smallest6 · chance 4.7
5th smallest5 · chance 3.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 7 18 21 25 30

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 29 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 29 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-17	13	5th	7 15 17 23 29 43
2026-09-02	3	4th	8 11 23 29 35 49
2026-08-22	2	4th	2 22 23 29 30 41
2026-08-15	15	5th

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