Number 4

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.00σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

16longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.00σ. 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 0 times, counted separately.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 16 · 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 4 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 smallest3 · chance 4.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

51 3 13 15 20 21

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-02	12	2nd	2 4 20 23 25 41 47
2026-08-21	1	2nd	1 4 15 18 24 25 51
2026-08-18	16	1st	4 13 21 26 39 43 48

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: 4 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.