Number 46

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 95 draws, 6 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 12 +1.05σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 40% for any number

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

26longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 95 draws against 11.6 expected, +1.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 95 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 46 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
5th smallest3 · chance 3.9
6th smallest12 · chance 10.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 19 28 41 5 7

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-23	2	6th	6 13 16 17 35 46
2026-09-16	1	6th	28 30 34 38 44 46
2026-09-12	1	6th	5 13 15 27 28 46
2026-09-09	9	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: 46 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.