Number 22

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

9times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.45σ

24draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

12.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

33longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −1.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 24 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 139 draws · average wait 12.8 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 24 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 0.8
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest5 · chance 3.4
4th smallest2 · chance 1.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3

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.

12 15 26 44 49 1

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 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
2026-09-17	8	1st	22 32 43 44 49
2026-09-09	5	3rd	1 15 22 31 39
2026-09-04	11	3rd	15 17 22 26 44
2026-08-24	22	3rd	12 21

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.