Number 40

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

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

15longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

40 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 40, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 15 · 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 40 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 smallest1 · chance 0.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.9
5th smallest2 · chance 2.4
6th smallest5 · chance 3.1
7th smallest0 · chance 1.4

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.

18 50 4 49 9 11

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 40 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 40 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	3	5th	14 18 22 29 40 45 49
2026-09-18	15	6th	4 9 11 26 37 40 50
2026-07-28	4	6th	1 9 18 27 30 40

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