Number 44

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

8times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.62σ

46draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.3% for any number

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

15longest completed wait · 71% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −1.62σ. Each draw is independent: after 46 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 111 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 46 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 44 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
5th smallest3 · chance 2.9
6th smallest4 · chance 4.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 3 5 20 21 22

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 21 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-05-13	6	5th	20 22 35 38 44 45
2026-04-22	1	4th	20 36 43 44 46 48
2026-04-18	13	6th	10 14 17 19 22 44
2026-03-04	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: 44 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.