Number 44

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

15times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.70σ

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

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

41longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

44 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.70σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 44, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 41 · 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 44 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest1 · chance 1.1
5th smallest5 · chance 5.4
6th smallest9 · chance 8.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 9 10 23 25 35

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 44 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 44 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	2	6th	5 14 24 32 37 44
2026-09-30	10	5th	9 18 35 43 44 46
2026-08-26	5	6th	23 25 31 37 40 44
2026-08-08	6	6th	10

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