Number 18

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

6times drawn · chance expected 7 −0.25σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

17longest completed wait · 41% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, −0.25σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 49 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 17 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 18 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest4 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.1
4th smallest0 · chance 1.4
5th smallest1 · chance 0.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1
7th 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.

40 49 50 9 22 34

Never drawn alongside 25 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 25 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 18 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 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	3	5th	3 8 9 16 18 22 44
2026-09-29	4	2nd	14 18 22 29 40 45 49
2026-09-15	14	2nd	6 18 21 23 26 33

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