Number 31

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

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 74% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

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

31 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 31, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 3 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 31 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 smallest0 · chance 0.3
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.4
4th smallest4 · chance 3.4
5th smallest2 · chance 4.0
6th smallest5 · chance 2.3
7th smallest0 · chance 0.5

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.

20 33 7 9 13 23

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, 31 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 31 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-10	12	6th	1 14 15 20 24 31 32
2026-02-27	5	6th	13 18 22 25 27 31 37
2026-02-10	12	4th	7 16 30 31 32

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