Number 14

In Québec Max under the 7/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 49 draws, 7 from 1–52.

8times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.59σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

5.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

12longest completed wait · 80% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws · average wait 5.3 draws · longest completed wait 12 · waiting 3 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 14 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 smallest3 · chance 1.2
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.6
4th smallest2 · chance 1.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 29 42 1 9 12

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 52. 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 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	1	1st	14 18 22 29 40 45 49
2026-09-25	1	2nd	12 14 21 27 36 42 43
2026-09-22	12	2nd	9 14 27 33 37 39

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: 14 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.