Number 47

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

7times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.45σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

12.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

23longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 95 draws against 11.6 expected, −1.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 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 47, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 95 draws · average wait 12.8 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 2 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest2 · chance 1.3
6th smallest5 · chance 5.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 1 19 28 32 34

Never drawn alongside 24 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 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.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 47 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-14	1	5th	1 18 32 45 47 49
2026-10-10	2	6th	12 28 36 39 45 47
2026-10-03	9	6th	12 15 19 29 42 47
2026-09-02	23	6th

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