Number 41

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

10times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.42σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

4.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

12longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

41 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +1.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 41, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 49 draws · average wait 4.2 draws · longest completed wait 12 · waiting 10 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 41 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 0.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.9
5th smallest4 · chance 2.8
6th smallest3 · chance 4.0
7th smallest2 · chance 2.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 37 8 15 29 32

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 41 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 41 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-04	3	6th	4 15 22 31 32 41 52
2026-08-25	2	7th	3 15 26 29 34 37 41
2026-08-18	1	5th	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: 41 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.