Number 3

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

9times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.01σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

14longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

3 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +1.01σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 3, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 49 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 14 · 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 3 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 smallest7 · chance 7.0
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 16 34 37 44 2

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 3 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 3 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	13	1st	3 8 9 16 18 22 44
2026-08-25	2	1st	3 15 26 29 34 37 41
2026-08-18	14	1st	3 6 17 37 41 42

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