In MultiMatch under the 6/43 + 1/0 · Nov 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 296 draws, 6 from 1–43 (an earlier era).
43times drawn · chance expected 41 +0.28σ
5draws waiting · a wait this long: 55% for any number
6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2
29longest completed wait · 47% chance of one at least that long
22 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 43 times in 296 draws against 41.3 expected, +0.28σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
22
Number 22, draw by draw
Drawn 43 times in 296 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 5 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 22 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 42 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 still unmet by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 22 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 43. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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: 22 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.