Number 21

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

17times drawn · chance expected 13 +1.05σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

11longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

21 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +1.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 21, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 11 · 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 21 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 5.5
4th smallest7 · chance 5.1
5th smallest1 · chance 2.4
6th smallest2 · chance 0.5
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 9 10 24 25 33

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 21 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 21 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-21	5	4th	1 12 15 21 34 35 50
2026-04-03	1	3rd	10 20 21 22 27 29 42
2026-03-31	6	4th	2 5 19 21 28

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