In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/12 · since Mar 2022 rules — 479 draws, 5 from 1–50.
43times drawn · chance expected 48 −0.75σ
7draws waiting · a wait this long: 53% for any number
11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0
40longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long
48 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 43 times in 479 draws against 47.9 expected, −0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
48
Number 48, draw by draw
Drawn 43 times in 479 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 7 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 48 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 1 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 48 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.
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: 48 is drawn with probability 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.