Number 22

In EuroMillions under the 5/50 + 2/12 · since Sep 2016 rules — 1,048 draws, 5 from 1–50.

75times drawn · chance expected 105 −3.07σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

14.0average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

57longest completed wait · 18% chance of one at least that long

22 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 50 numbers

Drawn 75 times in 1,048 draws against 104.8 expected, −3.07σ. Testing all 50 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 75 times in 1,048 draws · average wait 14.0 draws · longest completed wait 57 · waiting 1 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 smallest9 · chance 7.2
2nd smallest32 · chance 24.4
3rd smallest22 · chance 28.1
4th smallest11 · chance 13.2
5th smallest1 · chance 2.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 49 10 12 29 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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 50. 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
2026-10-06	1	2nd	18 22 32 41 48
2026-10-02	5	4th	7 8 10 22 35
2026-09-15	27	4th	10 16 18 22 28
2026-06-12	6	4th	4 7 14

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-02-21	26	2nd	21 22 34 41 49
2022-11-22	17	2nd	21 22 24 29 42
2022-09-23	5	3rd	14 15 22 35 48
2022-09-06	3	3rd	7 10 22 29 44
2022-08-26	20	1st	22 23 25 38 44
2022-06-17	8	3rd	19 21 22 31 38
2022-05-20	20	2nd	8 22 23 32 50
2022-03-11	20	3rd	12 19 22 23 48
2021-12-31	7	2nd	7 22 25 43 49
2021-12-07	1	1st	22 31 38 46 47
2021-12-03	4	2nd	21 22 29 32 46
2021-11-19	8	1st	22 26 38 47 50
2021-10-22	3	3rd	12 17 22 33 39
2021-10-12	26	3rd	6 13 22 45 49
2021-07-13	19	5th	5 6 8 11 22
2021-05-07	20	2nd	14 22 33 38 47
2021-02-26	50	3rd	6 12 22 29 33
2020-09-04	15	2nd	6 22 29 40 43
2020-07-14	12	2nd	11 22 30 37 47
2020-06-02	3	3rd	10 12 22 26 49
2020-05-22	5	3rd	3 18 22 27 32
2020-05-05	19	3rd	2 10 22 27 41
2020-02-28	18	4th	8 11 20 22 23
2019-12-27	20	3rd	1 7 22 26 35
2019-10-18	9	3rd	8 18 22 41 42
2019-09-17	2	1st	22 37 43 44 45
2019-09-10	1	2nd	3 22 25 30 49
2019-09-06	5	3rd	10 13 22 40 48
2019-08-20	5	2nd	20 22 23 24 37
2019-08-02	57	2nd	13 22 33 44 50
2019-01-15	2	1st	22 25 29 33 35
2019-01-08	47	3rd	3 19 22 31 32
2018-07-27	15	3rd	11 17 22 23 41
2018-06-05	7	3rd	9 15 22 39 46
2018-05-11	26	2nd	3 22 34 49 50
2018-02-09	12	1st	22 31 36 38 44
2017-12-29	6	3rd	4 8 22 23 48
2017-12-08	8	2nd	4 22 30 32 34
2017-11-10	35	2nd	13 22 29 36 37
2017-07-11	2	2nd	14 22 26 42 50
2017-07-04	6	2nd	10 22 25 37 49
2017-06-13	2	3rd	3 12 22 27 49
2017-06-06	8	2nd	20 22 25 37 40
2017-05-09	5	4th	8 12 16 22 26
2017-04-21	1	4th	2 13 16 22 49
2017-04-18	2	2nd	17 22 31 38 45
2017-04-11	13	3rd	5 21 22 31 49
2017-02-24	16	4th	2 4 13 22 43
2016-12-30	1	3rd	8 10 22 29 47
2016-12-27	13	2nd	3 22 25 32 39
2016-11-11	—	2nd	3 22 23 38 49