Number 18

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

11times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.72σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 12% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

18longest completed wait · 55% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.72σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 96 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 15 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 18 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 smallest0 · chance 0.7
2nd smallest6 · chance 2.7
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.8
4th smallest2 · chance 2.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 46 49 23 27 35

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 18 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 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-02-27	1	2nd	13 18 22 25 27 31 37
2026-02-24	7	4th	1 8 15 18 23 27 35
2026-01-30	2	2nd	17 18 19 21 34

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