Number 47

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

7times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.89σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 30% for any number

13.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

19longest completed wait · 34% chance of one at least that long

47 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −1.89σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 47, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 96 draws · average wait 13.8 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 9 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 0.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.2
6th smallest2 · chance 2.1
7th smallest4 · chance 4.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 46 9 12 14 20

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 21 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 50. 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
2026-03-20	13	7th	11 12 15 23 30 32 47
2026-02-03	14	6th	9 14 19 33 46 47 50
2025-12-16	18	6th	7 11 24 28 46

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.