Number 49

In New York Lotto under the 6/59 + 1/59 · since Oct 2010 rules — 1,671 draws, 6 from 1–59.

168times drawn · chance expected 170 −0.16σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

57longest completed wait · 34% chance of one at least that long

49 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 168 times in 1,671 draws against 169.9 expected, −0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 26 times, counted separately.

Number 49, draw by draw

Drawn 168 times in 1,671 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 57 · 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 49 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 smallest8 · chance 5.0
4th smallest22 · chance 28.5
5th smallest66 · chance 71.3
6th smallest72 · chance 62.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 14.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 15 2 27 54 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 58 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 — 34th most popular of 59. 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
2026-09-19	2	6th	1 17 26 27 32 49
2026-09-12	12	6th	8 31 42 45 48 49
2026-08-01	17	5th	21 22 28 41 49 57
2026-06-03

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 6/59 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-07-24	10	6th	8 21 25 32 33 49
2024-06-19	20	6th	2 8 9 29 39 49
2024-04-10	52	5th	4 31 43 46 49 51
2023-10-11	3	6th	11 12 16 25 41 49
2023-09-30	4	4th	23 31 37 49 51 57
2023-09-16	22	6th	16 20 37 40 48 49
2023-07-01	1	6th	15 19 24 36 40 49
2023-06-28	1	3rd	32 34 49 52 57 58
2023-06-24	5	6th	5 8 11 30 34 49
2023-06-07	27	5th	10 15 41 44 49 54
2023-03-04	1	5th	4 8 21 38 49 51
2023-03-01	3	5th	1 2 30 38 49 55
2023-02-18	4	3rd	32 47 49 52 58 59
2023-02-04	31	5th	2 14 28 29 49 50
2022-10-19	6	5th	2 17 23 34 49 50
2022-09-28	8	6th	6 22 28 32 36 49
2022-08-31	4	4th	42 45 47 49 52 56
2022-08-17	6	6th	2 35 36 37 43 49
2022-07-27	13	6th	22 24 33 34 43 49
2022-06-11	11	6th	1 12 13 16 17 49
2022-05-04	3	6th	1 5 22 23 45 49
2022-04-23	8	5th	1 11 17 27 49 58
2022-03-26	34	5th	4 31 33 38 49 54
2021-11-27	4	5th	16 20 27 44 49 55
2021-11-13	1	4th	10 21 24 49 52 55
2021-11-10	7	6th	10 15 20 29 31 49
2021-10-16	1	6th	14 15 17 33 37 49
2021-10-13	6	4th	4 10 32 49 50 58
2021-09-22	1	5th	1 12 23 29 49 59
2021-09-18	10	5th	19 23 30 38 49 58
2021-08-14	4	6th	1 2 23 27 38 49
2021-07-31	8	6th	4 10 11 20 41 49
2021-07-03	13	5th	5 21 31 45 49 54
2021-05-19	1	5th	27 29 32 44 49 58
2021-05-15	4	5th	1 6 19 39 49 57
2021-05-01	2	6th	7 16 25 33 35 49
2021-04-24	7	5th	5 27 40 46 49 50
2021-03-31	13	5th	9 30 32 46 49 53
2021-02-13	2	5th	5 30 37 44 49 54
2021-02-06	3	5th	10 27 31 36 49 56
2021-01-27	8	5th	4 33 40 47 49 50
2020-12-30	4	4th	1 10 37 49 53 57
2020-12-16	2	5th	15 22 44 47 49 52
2020-12-09	1	6th	19 20 34 40 46 49
2020-12-05	5	4th	5 16 37 49 55 57
2020-11-18	6	6th	6 9 31 36 43 49
2020-10-28	23	5th	10 16 18 30 49 50
2020-08-08	2	4th	6 17 31 49 52 53
2020-08-01	16	5th	1 13 27 30 49 58
2020-06-06	3	6th	10 17 22 37 39 49
2020-05-27	9	5th	4 22 27 36 49 55
2020-04-25	7	4th	15 27 29 49 50 56
2020-04-01	4	5th	6 10 35 44 49 53
2020-03-18	2	6th	1 14 15 33 38 49
2020-03-11	3	5th	5 23 26 34 49 58
2020-02-29	7	6th	3 4 20 28 31 49
2020-02-05	8	6th	6 15 32 33 42 49
2020-01-08	19	6th	7 26 37 47 48 49
2019-11-02	3	6th	23 31 38 46 48 49
2019-10-23	19	5th	7 10 12 40 49 58
2019-08-17	13	5th	25 31 34 42 49 53
2019-07-03	2	5th	27 31 37 48 49 54
2019-06-26	13	6th	6 15 25 28 36 49
2019-05-11	1	6th	4 26 31 38 39 49
2019-05-08	4	5th	3 7 14 28 49 54
2019-04-24	24	6th	2 28 37 43 46 49
2019-01-30	8	5th	1 22 36 44 49 59
2019-01-02	14	5th	22 23 34 36 49 55
2018-11-14	16	6th	5 15 26 39 45 49
2018-09-19	7	4th	8 15 19 49 52 57
2018-08-25	9	5th	12 31 38 48 49 54
2018-07-25	7	6th	4 10 18 35 41 49
2018-06-30	1	5th	9 15 21 35 49 56
2018-06-27	1	4th	14 17 22 49 57 59
2018-06-23	29	6th	3 4 16 20 25 49
2018-03-14	7	3rd	15 40 49 53 56 57
2018-02-17	7	6th	3 26 32 42 43 49
2018-01-24	8	5th	4 24 41 42 49 51
2017-12-27	3	6th	2 12 35 39 43 49
2017-12-16	1	4th	8 21 44 49 53 59
2017-12-13	17	4th	1 2 36 49 57 59
2017-10-14	4	6th	2 4 14 17 25 49
2017-09-30	1	4th	3 16 43 49 50 54
2017-09-27	4	4th	27 32 40 49 50 54
2017-09-13	2	5th	2 28 35 45 49 54
2017-09-06	14	4th	23 33 39 49 53 57
2017-07-19	2	5th	15 22 27 34 49 57
2017-07-12	14	6th	17 24 27 29 31 49
2017-05-24	9	6th	5 8 16 26 34 49
2017-04-22	10	5th	9 28 31 45 49 50
2017-03-18	11	6th	1 3 20 27 30 49
2017-02-08	4	6th	6 23 27 45 47 49
2017-01-25	4	4th	3 9 29 49 51 54
2017-01-11	4	4th	12 13 16 49 50 59
2016-12-28	4	6th	16 21 40 41 44 49
2016-12-14	3	5th	18 19 32 38 49 54
2016-12-03	11	3rd	12 42 49 53 54 59
2016-10-26	18	5th	18 22 41 45 49 56
2016-08-24	8	3rd	41 43 49 57 58 59
2016-07-27	10	5th	4 14 30 33 49 54
2016-06-22	3	5th	31 40 42 48 49 57
2016-06-11	7	5th	3 19 21 44 49 57
2016-05-18	2	5th	19 26 42 47 49 59
2016-05-11	2	6th	8 30 31 32 36 49
2016-05-04	24	5th	16 18 26 44 49 51
2016-02-10	2	6th	11 14 21 28 40 49
2016-02-03	27	6th	13 14 20 34 41 49
2015-10-31	7	6th	1 3 12 13 26 49
2015-10-07	15	5th	1 9 13 35 49 59
2015-08-15	24	5th	2 21 40 42 49 53
2015-05-23	2	5th	15 16 17 26 49 55
2015-05-16	6	6th	1 20 28 30 34 49
2015-04-25	1	5th	9 18 24 34 49 58
2015-04-22	51	6th	2 4 14 20 33 49
2014-10-25	31	6th	2 15 23 29 30 49
2014-07-09	3	6th	7 9 24 26 48 49
2014-06-28	18	3rd	15 28 49 50 53 56
2014-04-26	3	5th	2 11 12 47 49 57
2014-04-16	9	4th	11 12 19 49 55 59
2014-03-15	1	6th	6 29 30 34 44 49
2014-03-12	50	5th	9 11 14 16 49 57
2013-09-18	9	6th	4 11 12 20 22 49
2013-08-17	9	4th	10 17 18 49 58 59
2013-07-17	22	5th	25 29 40 41 49 56
2013-05-01	2	6th	10 17 19 42 44 49
2013-04-24	1	5th	3 8 25 35 49 50
2013-04-20	8	5th	12 15 27 43 49 53
2013-03-23	20	6th	5 26 27 31 38 49
2013-01-12	30	6th	5 25 36 44 47 49
2012-09-29	1	5th	6 24 41 42 49 55
2012-09-26	1	6th	17 20 33 35 37 49
2012-09-22	1	6th	3 19 23 43 46 49
2012-09-19	4	6th	9 36 38 43 46 49
2012-09-05	4	6th	2 14 37 43 44 49
2012-08-22	23	5th	18 27 30 35 49 53
2012-06-02	4	6th	7 17 25 28 48 49
2012-05-19	9	6th	2 17 22 30 35 49
2012-04-18	8	6th	11 27 30 36 46 49
2012-03-21	20	5th	1 3 25 26 49 52
2012-01-11	25	3rd	20 33 49 51 52 56
2011-10-15	7	6th	5 18 21 43 48 49
2011-09-21	57	5th	25 26 28 35 49 55
2011-03-05	38	6th	15 17 27 37 40 49
2010-10-23	—	5th	1 8 31 40 49 58