Number 22

In Euro Millions Plus under the 5/50 · since Sep 2024 rules — 211 draws, 5 from 1–50.

14times drawn · chance expected 21 −1.63σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

16.0average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

41longest completed wait · 18% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 211 draws against 21.1 expected, −1.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 211 draws · average wait 16.0 draws · longest completed wait 41 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest1 · chance 1.4
2nd smallest1 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.2
4th smallest1 · chance 2.5
5th smallest3 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 10 20 9 14 35

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 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
2026-10-09	24	4th	1 12 20 22 42
2026-07-17	8	5th	10 12 13 20 22
2026-06-19	29	3rd	1 10 22 34 40
2026-03-10	16	3rd	2 10

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.