Number 22

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.82σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

5.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.82σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 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 22, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 92 draws · average wait 5.4 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 1 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 0.8
2nd smallest5 · chance 3.7
3rd smallest7 · chance 6.1
4th smallest4 · chance 4.6
5th smallest1 · chance 1.6
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 24 27 28 38 1

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 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
2026-10-07	22	4th	9 10 11 22 24 39
2026-07-22	6	3rd	19 21 22 24 27 29
2026-07-01	6	2nd	5 22 24 25 34 49
2026-06-10	11	3rd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.