Number 46

In MyDaY under the 3/99 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2026 rules — 5,628 draws, 3 from 0–99 (an earlier era).

58times drawn · chance expected 169 −8.66σ

340draws waiting · a wait this long: <0.1% for any number

91.7average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

403longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

46 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 58 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −8.66σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 58 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 91.7 draws · longest completed wait 403 · waiting 340 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 46 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 16.5
2nd smallest0 · chance 29.1
3rd smallest58 · chance 12.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 6 8 9 1 5

Never drawn alongside 71 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 31 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 39th most popular of 100. 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-16	82	3rd	12 19 46
2025-06-26	78	3rd	2 12 46
2025-04-09	228	3rd	8 10 46
2024-08-24	8	3rd	11 28 46
2024-08-16	96	3rd	7 10 46
2024-05-12

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: 46 is drawn with probability 3/100 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-05-01	6	3rd	6 6 46
2020-04-25	29	3rd	5 17 46
2020-03-27	8	3rd	7 18 46
2020-03-19	114	3rd	1 8 46
2019-11-26	403	3rd	1 2 46
2018-10-19	157	3rd	2 18 46
2018-05-15	146	3rd	9 13 46
2017-12-20	44	3rd	7 12 46
2017-11-06	63	3rd	3 6 46
2017-09-04	56	3rd	5 20 46
2017-07-10	29	3rd	12 30 46
2017-06-11	65	3rd	1 21 46
2017-04-07	108	3rd	11 23 46
2016-12-20	245	3rd	9 17 46
2016-03-16	11	3rd	7 14 46
2016-03-03	96	3rd	9 11 46
2015-11-12	19	3rd	7 8 46
2015-10-21	73	3rd	2 20 46
2015-07-28	151	3rd	4 8 46
2015-02-02	54	3rd	3 19 46
2014-11-29	19	3rd	5 27 46
2014-11-07	11	3rd	2 16 46
2014-10-25	23	3rd	1 6 46
2014-09-29	119	3rd	4 6 46
2014-05-13	280	3rd	8 14 46
2013-06-20	151	3rd	12 23 46
2012-12-26	41	3rd	1 10 46
2012-11-08	39	3rd	8 16 46
2012-09-24	116	3rd	2 26 46
2012-05-10	24	3rd	4 22 46
2012-04-12	61	3rd	10 27 46
2012-02-01	293	3rd	6 15 46
2011-02-22	209	3rd	5 17 46
2010-06-23	—	3rd	7 9 46