Number 1

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

7times drawn · chance expected 18 −2.72σ

60draws waiting · a wait this long: <0.1% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

16longest completed wait · 60% chance of one at least that long

1 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 49 numbers

Drawn 7 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −2.72σ. Testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it.

Number 1, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 60 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 1 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 smallest7 · chance 7.0
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

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 2 9 10 11 14

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 1 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 1 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-03-14	10	1st	1 2 16 20 26 30
2026-02-07	5	1st	1 5 14 22 30 36
2026-01-21	5	1st	1 9 11 18 25 45
2026-01-03	11	1st	1

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: 1 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.