Number 19

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

9times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.01σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 11% for any number

3.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

6longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long

19 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +1.01σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 19, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 49 draws · average wait 3.1 draws · longest completed wait 6 · waiting 16 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 19 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 0.6
2nd smallest5 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.1
4th smallest2 · chance 2.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.8
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 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 26 37 46 49 2

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 19 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 19 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-14	6	2nd	11 19 26 37 41 43 52
2026-07-24	4	2nd	14 19 24 26 29 48 49
2026-07-10	2	2nd	6 19 21 35 42 45

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