Number 52

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

10times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.22σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

5.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

12longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

52 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +1.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 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.

Number 52, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 52 draws · average wait 5.1 draws · longest completed wait 12 · waiting 4 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 52 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest10 · chance 10.0

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.

12 25 35 38 41 1

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 52 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	5	7th	8 24 38 41 43 50 52
2026-09-08	1	7th	12 18 19 35 43 49 52
2026-09-04	1	7th	11 12 17 34 45 48 52

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