Number 30

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

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.16σ

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

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

34longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

30 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 30, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 34 · 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 30 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 0.0
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.0
4th smallest3 · chance 4.2
5th smallest3 · chance 4.5
6th smallest4 · chance 2.4
7th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 16 46 3 9 15

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 30 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 30 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-14	7	6th	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-03-20	1	5th	11 12 15 23 30 32 47
2026-03-17	8	3rd	14 17 30 32 34

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