Number 38

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

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 40% for any number

5.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

17longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.7 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 7 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 38 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.4
4th smallest1 · chance 1.8
5th smallest6 · chance 4.7
6th smallest6 · chance 5.6
7th smallest2 · chance 2.5

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.

34 36 49 1 6 9

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, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-27	5	6th	11 13 20 27 37 38 48
2026-03-10	13	6th	5 7 9 21 34 38 43
2026-01-23	7	5th	6 18 23 35 38

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