Number 22

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.56σ

28draws waiting · a wait this long: 5% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

20longest completed wait · 83% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, −0.56σ. Each draw is independent: after 28 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 28 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest10 · chance 4.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 5.3
4th smallest1 · chance 2.6
5th smallest1 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 49 27 28 2 7

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers 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 49. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 22 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-02	20	2nd	15 22 30 31 49
2026-04-23	8	2nd	16 22 28 29 49
2026-03-26	4	4th	2 4 10 22 31
2026-03-12	5	2nd	4 22 28 29

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: 22 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.