Which Bonoloto numbers come up most?
Every ball drawn in the last 3,501 Bonoloto draws — Friday 1 January 2016 to Wednesday 16 September 2026 — counted, ranked and mapped.
3,501 draws · Jan 2016 – Sept 2026 · 21,006 balls
These numbers describe the past. They cannot predict the next draw.
This describes the past, not the future. Every number has the same chance in every draw. Nothing here changes your odds.
Balls have no memory. In every draw each number has exactly the same chance — 1 in 49 of being the first ball out, whether it appeared last week or has not shown up for a year. Nothing on this page changes your odds. It is here because the patterns are interesting, and because knowing which combinations are popular can lower your chance of sharing a jackpot.
Draws analysed
3,501
21,006 balls drawn
Expected per number
428.7
If every ball were perfectly even
Drawn most
37 482
53.3 above expected
Drawn least
38 390
38.7 below expected
Every number, by how often it came up
Colour shows the gap from the expected 428.7 appearances.
Below expected · Expected · Above
−29.1 +29.1
below · expected 428.7 · above
Number 37
Drawn 482 of 3,501 draws
53.3 above expected
Last out withheld
Longest gap 48 draws
A spread like this is exactly what pure chance produces. Formally: χ² = 36.1 on 48 degrees of freedom, p = 0.90 — no evidence that any ball is favoured. How we test for bias →
Drawn most often
Appearances in 3,501 draws
Drawn least often
Appearances in 3,501 draws
Longest droughts on record
The longest run of draws each number has sat out. It never made them "due".
Turn up together most
Pairs appearing in the same draw
The one statistic that can actually help you
Roughly a third of players choose numbers from 1–31 because they are using birthdays, and thousands of tickets carry 1-2-3-4-5-6 every week. Picking outside those patterns will not make you more likely to win — but if you do win, you are less likely to be sharing the jackpot with a hundred other people.
Across 3,501 draws under the current matrix, each number has come up about 429 times.
The spread of numbers is what chance produces. Nothing here is out of the ordinary, and no number is due.
Most and least often drawn
The difference between the top and the bottom of this list is what chance produces on a sample this size. Neither group is more likely next time.
Drawn most
- 37 482 times
- 46 470 times
- 40 468 times
- 41 456 times
- 45 453 times
- 16 450 times
Drawn least
- 38 390 times
- 29 397 times
- 14 399 times
- 19 402 times
- 17 404 times
- 7 409 times
The longest a number has gone missing
Number 48 once went 99 draws without appearing — the record for this game in our archive. It was last drawn 4 draws ago.
Those are two different questions and they are constantly confused. A record drought is the longest gap a number has ever had. It says nothing about now, and a number that has been missing a long time is not more likely to appear.
Every number
| Number | Times drawn | Expected | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 432 | 428.7 | +3.3 |
| 2 | 437 | 428.7 | +8.3 |
| 3 | 417 | 428.7 | -11.7 |
| 4 | 415 | 428.7 | -13.7 |
| 5 | 420 | 428.7 | -8.7 |
| 6 | 434 | 428.7 | +5.3 |
| 7 | 409 | 428.7 | -19.7 |
| 8 | 425 | 428.7 | -3.7 |
| 9 | 438 | 428.7 | +9.3 |
| 10 | 434 | 428.7 | +5.3 |
| 11 | 423 | 428.7 | -5.7 |
| 12 | 425 | 428.7 | -3.7 |
| 13 | 423 | 428.7 | -5.7 |
| 14 | 399 | 428.7 | -29.7 |
| 15 | 417 | 428.7 | -11.7 |
| 16 | 450 | 428.7 | +21.3 |
| 17 | 404 | 428.7 | -24.7 |
| 18 | 445 | 428.7 | +16.3 |
| 19 | 402 | 428.7 | -26.7 |
| 20 | 427 | 428.7 | -1.7 |
| 21 | 435 | 428.7 | +6.3 |
| 22 | 438 | 428.7 | +9.3 |
| 23 | 431 | 428.7 | +2.3 |
| 24 | 420 | 428.7 | -8.7 |
| 25 | 433 | 428.7 | +4.3 |
| 26 | 417 | 428.7 | -11.7 |
| 27 | 418 | 428.7 | -10.7 |
| 28 | 430 | 428.7 | +1.3 |
| 29 | 397 | 428.7 | -31.7 |
| 30 | 435 | 428.7 | +6.3 |
| 31 | 427 | 428.7 | -1.7 |
| 32 | 434 | 428.7 | +5.3 |
| 33 | 441 | 428.7 | +12.3 |
| 34 | 415 | 428.7 | -13.7 |
| 35 | 427 | 428.7 | -1.7 |
| 36 | 419 | 428.7 | -9.7 |
| 37 | 482 | 428.7 | +53.3 |
| 38 | 390 | 428.7 | -38.7 |
| 39 | 431 | 428.7 | +2.3 |
| 40 | 468 | 428.7 | +39.3 |
| 41 | 456 | 428.7 | +27.3 |
| 42 | 415 | 428.7 | -13.7 |
| 43 | 419 | 428.7 | -9.7 |
| 44 | 431 | 428.7 | +2.3 |
| 45 | 453 | 428.7 | +24.3 |
| 46 | 470 | 428.7 | +41.3 |
| 47 | 436 | 428.7 | +7.3 |
| 48 | 426 | 428.7 | -2.7 |
| 49 | 436 | 428.7 | +7.3 |
How often a line looks a certain way
Frequency is one question about a draw. Shape is another, and it is the one people act on — the numbers they cross out because a line "looks wrong". These come from the matrix rather than from counting, so they are exact.
| Shape | Chance | In our archive |
|---|---|---|
| contains two consecutive numbers | about 50% | 1,753 of 3,501 draws |
| contains three in a row | 1 in 21 | 169 of 3,501 draws |
| every number odd | 1 in 79 | 47 of 3,501 draws |
| every number even | 1 in 104 | 33 of 3,501 draws |
None of it makes a line more or less likely to be drawn. Every set of 6 numbers has exactly the same chance — what the record shows about the shapes people avoid works through the counting.
What none of this can tell you
Which numbers will come up next. A draw has no memory: the balls do not know what happened last week, and the chance of any particular line is fixed by the matrix at 1 in 13,983,816 whatever has gone before.
Counting past draws is genuinely interesting and it is a record of what happened. It is not a forecast, and anyone selling you one is selling you a coin they have already flipped.
Last updated Sunday 20 September 2026, after the draw on Wednesday 16 September 2026.
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