Number 38

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

5times drawn · chance expected 7 −0.67σ

20draws waiting · a wait this long: 6% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

15longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

38 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 5 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, −0.67σ. Each draw is independent: after 20 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 38, draw by draw

Drawn 5 times in 49 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 20 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 38 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 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.8
5th smallest3 · chance 1.7
6th smallest2 · chance 1.7
7th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 16 17 25 34 47

Never drawn alongside 28 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 28 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 38 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 38 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-31	9	5th	16 25 34 36 38 43 46
2026-06-30	1	5th	3 6 16 34 38 45 47
2026-06-26	15	6th	2 17 19 21 28 38

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