Number 22

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

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.42σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 55% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

22longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 5 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 22 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 0.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.8
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.7
4th smallest4 · chance 3.7
5th smallest2 · chance 1.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.5
7th smallest1 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 42 4 9 10 15

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 22 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 22 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-03	3	4th	10 20 21 22 27 29 42
2026-03-24	7	4th	6 15 17 22 29 45 46
2026-02-27	15	3rd	13 18 22 25 27

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