Number 48

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

65times drawn · chance expected 169 −8.11σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 78% for any number

86.2average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

330longest completed wait · 0.3% chance of one at least that long

48 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 65 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −8.11σ. 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 48, draw by draw

Drawn 65 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 86.2 draws · longest completed wait 330 · 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 48 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 17.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 32.8
3rd smallest65 · chance 15.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 3 11 7 1 5

Never drawn alongside 69 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 27 such strangers 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 — 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 48 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-13	60	3rd	3 12 48
2026-06-14	229	3rd	3 28 48
2025-10-28	103	3rd	5 8 48
2025-07-17	4	3rd	5 11 48
2025-07-13	12	3rd	3 22 48
2025-07-01

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

2020-07-29	46	3rd	12 22 48
2020-06-13	36	3rd	2 26 48
2020-05-08	65	3rd	10 14 48
2020-03-04	10	3rd	1 3 48
2020-02-23	29	3rd	12 31 48
2020-01-25	88	3rd	2 14 48
2019-10-29	209	3rd	5 27 48
2019-04-03	104	3rd	7 9 48
2018-12-20	122	3rd	10 26 48
2018-08-20	87	3rd	9 17 48
2018-05-25	330	3rd	6 22 48
2017-06-29	50	3rd	12 20 48
2017-05-10	159	3rd	11 17 48
2016-12-02	125	3rd	3 28 48
2016-07-13	59	3rd	4 17 48
2016-05-05	37	3rd	11 15 48
2016-03-23	4	3rd	8 16 48
2016-03-18	21	3rd	3 13 48
2016-02-23	5	3rd	5 21 48
2016-02-17	20	3rd	11 12 48
2016-01-25	71	3rd	6 12 48
2015-11-03	3	3rd	5 7 48
2015-10-30	131	3rd	7 23 48
2015-05-30	46	3rd	6 22 48
2015-04-07	178	3rd	10 24 48
2014-09-10	14	3rd	7 17 48
2014-08-25	34	3rd	2 15 48
2014-07-16	60	3rd	2 7 48
2014-05-07	133	3rd	12 20 48
2013-12-03	95	3rd	9 10 48
2013-08-14	149	3rd	12 12 48
2013-02-21	36	3rd	11 22 48
2013-01-10	59	3rd	3 21 48
2012-11-02	130	3rd	1 9 48
2012-06-04	67	3rd	12 26 48
2012-03-16	120	3rd	12 31 48
2011-10-28	242	3rd	11 23 48
2011-01-17	97	3rd	1 4 48
2010-09-25	33	3rd	2 7 48
2010-08-18	8	3rd	3 4 48
2010-08-09	—	3rd	1 22 48