Number 11

In Québec Max under the 7/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 53 draws, 7 from 1–52.

7times drawn · chance expected 7 −0.05σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

21longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

11 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 53 draws against 7.1 expected, −0.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 11, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 53 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 10 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 11 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 smallest3 · chance 1.7
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

43 45 8 9 22 26

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 11 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-18	2	3rd	4 9 11 26 37 40 50
2026-09-11	4	3rd	7 8 11 30 43 45 47
2026-08-28	2	2nd	9 11 23 27 35 36

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: 11 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.