Number 20

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

15times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.46σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 74% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

22longest completed wait · 45% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 3 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 20 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 smallest1 · chance 0.6
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.0
4th smallest7 · chance 4.2
5th smallest0 · chance 1.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.4
7th smallest1 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 10 25 2 6 13

Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 20 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 20 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-10	2	4th	1 14 15 20 24 31 32
2026-04-03	2	2nd	10 20 21 22 27 29 42
2026-03-27	22	3rd	11 13 20 27 37

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