Number 47

In Québec Max under the 7/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 53 draws, 7 from 1–52.

7times drawn · chance expected 7 −0.05σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

16longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 53 draws against 7.1 expected, −0.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 53 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 16 · 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 smallest1 · chance 0.6
6th smallest1 · chance 2.7
7th smallest5 · chance 3.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 16 17 30 34 38

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 — 34th most popular of 52. 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
2026-10-16	10	7th	8 16 27 32 40 43 47
2026-09-11	1	7th	7 8 11 30 43 45 47
2026-09-08	16	7th	24 30 33 34 36 44

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.