Number 46

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

17times drawn · chance expected 13 +1.05σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

24longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long

46 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +1.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 46, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 2 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 46 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 0.1
5th smallest3 · chance 1.1
6th smallest5 · chance 5.9
7th smallest9 · chance 9.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 49 8 17 18 30

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 46 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 46 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-14	6	7th	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-03-24	2	7th	6 15 17 22 29 45 46
2026-03-17	3	7th	14 17 30 32 34

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