Number 27

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

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

15longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 2 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 27 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.1
4th smallest5 · chance 4.9
5th smallest5 · chance 4.1
6th smallest2 · chance 1.6
7th smallest0 · chance 0.2

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.

14 22 29 37 44 10

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 8 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-14	3	5th	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-04-03	2	5th	10 20 21 22 27 29 42
2026-03-27	8	4th	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: 27 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.