Number 22

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.64σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

32longest completed wait · 12% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 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 22, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 8 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest0 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.1
4th smallest6 · chance 3.7
5th smallest0 · chance 1.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 2 12 28 1 4

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 45. 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
2026-08-15	3	4th	1 2 6 22 33 37
2026-07-25	9	4th	4 18 20 22 27 28
2026-05-23	13	4th	6 12 15 22 28 30
2026-02-21	2	4th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.