Number 41

In Lotto under the 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 rules — 847 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

101times drawn · chance expected 98 +0.35σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

50longest completed wait · 22% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 101 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, +0.35σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 18 times, counted separately.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 101 times in 847 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 50 · waiting 4 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 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 smallest1 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest7 · chance 5.5
4th smallest24 · chance 23.4
5th smallest37 · chance 43.2
6th smallest32 · chance 28.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 23 45 3 4 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 — 34th most popular of 52. 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
2025-09-06	5	5th	3 12 28 39 41 50
2025-08-20	3	5th	2 14 16 19 41 43
2025-08-09	13	5th	4 15 38 39 41 51
2025-06-25	1	4th

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 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

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