Number 41

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 794 draws, 5 from 1–47.

76times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.97σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

38longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 794 draws against 84.5 expected, −0.97σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 794 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 38 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 0.4
3rd smallest9 · chance 5.4
4th smallest18 · chance 27.6
5th smallest49 · chance 42.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 12 9 10 21 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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 47. 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
2026-10-22	6	5th	12 18 19 32 41
2026-10-01	5	5th	16 24 30 36 41
2026-09-14	12	5th	10 19 21 27 41
2026-08-03	15	5th	12 20 21 24

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-06-06	5	5th	3 24 29 31 41
2024-05-20	9	5th	9 10 25 32 41
2024-04-18	4	5th	6 18 26 35 41
2024-04-04	2	5th	2 9 16 17 41
2024-03-28	26	5th	5 10 19 26 41
2023-12-28	1	5th	13 14 35 36 41
2023-12-25	4	4th	2 15 21 41 47
2023-12-11	5	5th	12 14 20 28 41
2023-11-23	2	5th	10 14 19 35 41
2023-11-16	4	5th	12 18 30 40 41
2023-11-02	4	3rd	12 20 41 42 46
2023-10-19	2	4th	12 14 38 41 44
2023-10-12	5	3rd	9 19 41 44 46
2023-09-25	12	5th	6 12 13 15 41
2023-08-14	6	5th	8 15 17 31 41
2023-07-24	10	3rd	14 21 41 43 47
2023-06-19	6	5th	7 19 21 22 41
2023-05-29	15	4th	4 11 14 41 45
2023-04-06	18	3rd	16 21 41 43 46
2023-02-02	13	5th	5 9 10 25 41
2022-12-19	38	5th	1 9 12 36 41
2022-08-08	18	5th	10 15 22 23 41
2022-06-06	21	4th	9 17 32 41 45
2022-03-24	6	4th	34 36 38 41 46
2022-03-03	18	4th	18 26 29 41 42
2021-12-30	22	5th	20 27 38 40 41
2021-10-14	29	5th	2 8 24 38 41
2021-07-05	3	5th	17 22 36 40 41
2021-06-24	11	5th	1 26 31 32 41
2021-05-17	7	5th	10 17 23 39 41
2021-04-22	20	4th	14 30 36 41 42
2021-02-11	18	4th	27 29 37 41 42
2020-12-10	2	5th	25 33 35 39 41
2020-12-03	9	5th	9 22 25 38 41
2020-11-02	8	3rd	3 16 41 42 44
2020-10-05	2	4th	21 34 39 41 45
2020-09-28	2	4th	6 23 38 41 42
2020-09-21	8	5th	3 7 26 37 41
2020-08-24	29	4th	10 24 25 41 42
2020-05-14	4	5th	12 15 36 38 41
2020-04-30	5	4th	11 37 39 41 46
2020-04-13	4	5th	1 21 23 29 41
2020-03-30	12	5th	2 3 4 36 41
2020-02-17	13	5th	1 12 34 37 41
2020-01-02	2	5th	1 6 13 32 41
2019-12-26	17	5th	10 24 30 32 41
2019-10-28	6	5th	5 25 31 34 41
2019-10-07	6	5th	17 25 29 33 41
2019-09-16	32	5th	5 9 16 32 41
2019-05-27	13	3rd	7 15 41 42 44
2019-04-11	3	3rd	5 7 41 44 45
2019-04-01	—	5th	6 15 24 35 41