Number 25

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

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

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

25 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 25, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 11 · waiting 11 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 25 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 0.2
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 4.0
4th smallest5 · chance 5.3
5th smallest7 · chance 3.6
6th smallest1 · chance 1.2
7th smallest1 · chance 0.2

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.

3 5 6 20 21 36

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 25 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 25 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-13	4	5th	1 3 13 16 25 26 42
2026-02-27	9	4th	13 18 22 25 27 31 37
2026-01-27	3	4th	12 14 16 25 42

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