Number 1

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

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

17longest completed wait · 76% chance of one at least that long

1 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.2 draws · longest completed wait 17 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 1 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 smallest16 · chance 16.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 42 8 10 29 3

Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-21	3	1st	1 12 15 21 34 35 50
2026-04-10	8	1st	1 14 15 20 24 31 32
2026-03-13	5	1st	1 3 13 16 25

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