Number 49

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

43times drawn · chance expected 169 −9.83σ

146draws waiting · a wait this long: 1% for any number

129.4average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

602longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

49 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 43 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −9.83σ. 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 49, draw by draw

Drawn 43 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 129.4 draws · longest completed wait 602 · waiting 146 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 49 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 10.9
2nd smallest0 · chance 21.7
3rd smallest43 · chance 10.4

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.

1 12 2 5 6 8

Never drawn alongside 72 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 42 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 49 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 49 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-29	113	3rd	1 2 49
2025-12-06	202	3rd	6 14 49
2025-05-18	97	3rd	5 7 49
2025-02-10	132	3rd	12 12 49
2024-10-01	89	3rd	5 13 49
2024-07-04

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

2018-09-04	78	3rd	8 15 49
2018-06-18	168	3rd	2 26 49
2018-01-01	193	3rd	3 6 49
2017-06-22	602	3rd	12 24 49
2015-08-27	290	3rd	1 6 49
2014-09-22	74	3rd	4 27 49
2014-06-27	155	3rd	1 14 49
2013-12-28	6	3rd	5 12 49
2013-12-21	86	3rd	2 17 49
2013-09-12	14	3rd	1 5 49
2013-08-27	30	3rd	3 11 49
2013-07-23	291	3rd	10 17 49
2012-08-17	300	3rd	1 26 49
2011-09-01	7	3rd	4 14 49
2011-08-24	101	3rd	1 13 49
2011-04-27	190	3rd	8 30 49
2010-09-16	1	3rd	9 18 49
2010-09-15	87	3rd	5 13 49
2010-06-05	—	3rd	10 11 49