Number 38

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

14times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.95σ

44draws waiting · a wait this long: 0.4% for any number

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 32% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 44 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 44 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 38 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 0.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.9
4th smallest2 · chance 3.5
5th smallest7 · chance 5.9
6th smallest5 · chance 3.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 35 3 30 33 7

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 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 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-05-09	2	5th	11 26 28 35 38 46
2026-05-02	28	5th	7 19 34 37 38 40
2026-01-24	11	6th	3 20 30 32 33 38
2025-12-17	2	4th	13

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