Number 50

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

8times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.59σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 49% for any number

5.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

10longest completed wait · 89% chance of one at least that long

50 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 50, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws · average wait 5.1 draws · longest completed wait 10 · waiting 6 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 50 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 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest2 · chance 1.7
7th smallest6 · chance 6.2

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.

40 49 13 18 43 4

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 50 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 50 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-18	5	7th	4 9 11 26 37 40 50
2026-09-01	10	6th	13 25 31 36 49 50 52
2026-07-28	2	7th	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: 50 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.