Number 22

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.93σ

20draws waiting · a wait this long: 7% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

18longest completed wait · 60% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 20 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 18 · 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 22 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.3
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest1 · chance 3.8
4th smallest5 · chance 3.4
5th smallest4 · chance 1.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 5 33 2 4 7

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 13 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 22 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 22 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-05-24	1	5th	5 8 10 17 22 38
2026-05-17	18	4th	2 3 16 22 25 28
2026-01-11	15	4th	4 6 14 22 24 33

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: 22 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.