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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.
In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.
Drawn 2 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, −2.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.
Drawn 2 times in 52 draws · average wait 49.0 draws · longest completed wait 49 · waiting 2 draws now
a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap
Too few completed waits to plot a distribution for this number alone.
Sort a draw and 20 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.
Never drawn alongside 40 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 40 such strangers by now. Every pair →
Under the crowd model, 20 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th most popular of 52. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
The model and its sources → · What people believe about 20 →
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: 20 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.