Number 41

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 148 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.53σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

23longest completed wait · 58% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 148 draws against 18.1 expected, −0.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 148 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 3 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 41 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 smallest2 · chance 2.6
5th smallest11 · chance 6.8
6th smallest3 · chance 6.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 12 42 43 3 4

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 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 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-10	11	6th	4 10 13 15 33 41
2026-09-02	14	5th	3 4 11 27 41 47
2026-07-15	9	5th	7 8 21 35 41 43
2026-06-13	8	6th	3

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