In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2024 – May 2026 rules — 589 draws, 5 from 1–49 (an earlier era).
55times drawn · chance expected 60 −0.69σ
5draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number
10.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
41longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long
47 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 55 times in 589 draws against 60.1 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 9 times, counted separately.
47
Number 47, draw by draw
Drawn 55 times in 589 draws · average wait 10.0 draws · longest completed wait 41 · waiting 5 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.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 0.5 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 — 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.