Number 49

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

10times drawn · chance expected 12 −0.51σ

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

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 95 draws against 11.6 expected, −0.51σ. 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 2 times, counted separately.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 95 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 30 · 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 49 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 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest10 · chance 10.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 7 10 12 15 16

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-14	10	6th	1 18 32 45 47 49
2026-09-09	6	6th	7 13 14 33 46 49
2026-08-19	11	6th	2 16 29 34 38 49
2026-07-11	3	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: 49 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.