Number 7

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

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.16σ

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

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

19longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 19 · 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 7 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 smallest5 · chance 6.1
2nd smallest7 · chance 5.8
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
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 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 5 29 42 9 13

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st 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
The number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-17	11	3rd	2 5 7 14 39 42 44
2026-03-10	5	2nd	5 7 9 21 34 38 43
2026-02-20	3	2nd	5 7 27 29 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: 7 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.