Number 36

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

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.44σ

24draws waiting · a wait this long: 5% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

36 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 24 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 36, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 36 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 0.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.6
4th smallest6 · chance 4.8
5th smallest5 · chance 6.4
6th smallest4 · chance 3.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 39 4 13 15 18

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 36 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 36 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-18	4	5th	4 10 25 33 36 44
2026-07-04	22	5th	7 13 21 29 36 48
2026-04-18	9	4th	6 10 18 36 42 45
2026-03-18	11	5th	15

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