Number 44

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

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

16longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 1 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 44 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 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest1 · chance 2.0
6th smallest6 · chance 6.2
7th smallest8 · chance 6.5

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 27 41 42 50 1

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, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-17	16	7th	2 5 7 14 39 42 44
2026-02-20	7	7th	5 7 27 29 34 36 44
2026-01-27	7	6th	12 14 16 25 42

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