Number 3

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

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.13σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

16longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 11 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 3 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest8 · chance 10.0
2nd smallest5 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 33 42 1 6 12

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-13	16	2nd	1 3 13 16 25 26 42
2026-01-16	15	1st	3 11 15 24 25 30 45
2025-11-25	11	1st	3 12 13 27 28

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