Number 14

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

16times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.75σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

18longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 1 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 14 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 smallest2 · chance 2.2
2nd smallest7 · chance 5.6
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.3
4th smallest2 · chance 2.3
5th smallest1 · chance 0.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 10 15 17 27 36

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 50. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-17	1	4th	2 5 7 14 39 42 44
2026-04-14	1	2nd	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-04-10	7	2nd	1 14 15 20 24

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: 14 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.