Number 52

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

7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.17σ

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

3.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

8longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

52 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 52, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 49 draws · average wait 3.5 draws · longest completed wait 8 · 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 52 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 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest7 · chance 7.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 31 41 43 11 34

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

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 52 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 52 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-04	1	7th	4 15 22 31 32 41 52
2026-09-01	3	7th	13 25 31 36 49 50 52
2026-08-21	2	7th	11 21 34 43 44 45

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