Number 41

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

16times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.75σ

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

5.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

13longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.7 draws · longest completed wait 13 · 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 41 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 0.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.9
5th smallest5 · chance 3.8
6th smallest4 · chance 6.8
7th smallest6 · chance 4.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 29 37 44 1 2

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 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 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-31	13	7th	2 5 19 21 28 39 41
2026-02-13	12	7th	9 11 16 24 30 36 41
2026-01-02	1	4th	10 19 29 41 43

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