Number 45

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 151 draws, 5 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.38σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

10.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

36longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

45 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 151 draws against 15.4 expected, −0.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 45, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 151 draws · average wait 10.7 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 8 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 45 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 0.4
4th smallest4 · chance 3.8
5th smallest10 · chance 9.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 3 18 24 4 19

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 45 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 45 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-15	3	5th	4 20 24 33 45
2026-10-12	36	5th	15 17 18 31 45
2026-09-06	14	4th	3 16 35 45 46
2026-08-23	13	4th	4 12

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: 45 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.