Number 28

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

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

26longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

28 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 28, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 6 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 28 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 smallest2 · chance 0.6
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.2
4th smallest2 · chance 3.9
5th smallest4 · chance 3.5
6th smallest0 · chance 1.5
7th smallest1 · chance 0.3

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.

11 9 14 31 41 46

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 28 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 28 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-31	26	5th	2 5 19 21 28 39 41
2025-12-30	2	3rd	11 23 28 31 34 38 41
2025-12-23	2	4th	1 14 27 28 39

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