Number 22

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

96times drawn · chance expected 92 +0.48σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

42longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, +0.48σ. 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 96 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 42 · 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest2 · chance 2.0
2nd smallest18 · chance 13.0
3rd smallest23 · chance 30.7
4th smallest32 · chance 32.4
5th smallest20 · chance 15.3
6th smallest1 · chance 2.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 34 38 2 15 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 42. 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
2026-10-10	8	3rd	2 17 22 24 29 42
2026-09-12	16	4th	6 7 15 22 24 26
2026-07-18	2	4th	3 11 15 22 34 39
2026-07-11	14	4th	2

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-08-14	2	3rd	11 16 22 26 28 29
2024-08-07	2	2nd	12 22 31 32 39 40
2024-07-31	3	5th	3 6 10 17 22 37
2024-07-20	3	4th	2 13 21 22 32 34
2024-07-10	9	3rd	17 20 22 30 33 34
2024-06-08	11	2nd	17 22 23 30 38 39
2024-05-01	8	3rd	2 16 22 33 35 42
2024-04-03	6	5th	1 15 18 19 22 29
2024-03-13	8	2nd	12 22 23 27 31 34
2024-02-14	9	1st	22 31 32 33 41 42
2024-01-13	7	3rd	4 12 22 27 33 42
2023-12-20	4	3rd	3 9 22 36 37 41
2023-12-06	3	4th	11 14 19 22 27 28
2023-11-25	10	2nd	14 22 28 33 35 40
2023-10-21	4	4th	11 15 18 22 23 36
2023-10-07	2	3rd	11 12 22 26 35 41
2023-09-30	1	6th	7 10 17 20 21 22
2023-09-27	2	4th	11 15 16 22 38 41
2023-09-20	2	4th	8 19 21 22 32 35
2023-09-13	6	5th	3 4 6 14 22 38
2023-08-23	5	4th	9 12 14 22 27 32
2023-08-05	4	1st	22 27 30 32 38 40
2023-07-22	2	5th	6 8 13 19 22 41
2023-07-15	15	4th	5 9 20 22 28 41
2023-05-24	1	2nd	12 22 30 34 37 41
2023-05-20	3	4th	4 15 21 22 27 42
2023-05-10	1	3rd	2 14 22 29 32 41
2023-05-06	6	3rd	17 21 22 25 30 42
2023-04-15	5	4th	5 10 19 22 24 42
2023-03-29	4	3rd	11 19 22 25 26 29
2023-03-15	4	4th	3 12 20 22 30 33
2023-03-01	4	5th	2 4 9 15 22 38
2023-02-15	1	5th	1 5 11 17 22 31
2023-02-11	1	4th	1 8 16 22 31 35
2023-02-08	1	2nd	17 22 23 34 35 40
2023-02-04	3	5th	2 3 15 16 22 37
2023-01-25	1	2nd	17 22 30 37 39 42
2023-01-21	15	5th	4 12 15 17 22 31
2022-11-30	17	4th	3 17 21 22 24 37
2022-10-01	1	3rd	4 8 22 24 28 34
2022-09-28	11	5th	2 8 16 21 22 33
2022-08-20	7	4th	2 3 11 22 30 42
2022-07-27	4	4th	3 7 8 22 34 36
2022-07-13	3	2nd	2 22 23 26 28 32
2022-07-02	3	4th	8 9 13 22 38 40
2022-06-22	4	2nd	21 22 24 27 29 37
2022-06-08	17	5th	13 17 18 20 22 25
2022-04-09	1	3rd	9 20 22 37 38 40
2022-04-06	6	4th	10 13 17 22 34 38
2022-03-16	8	4th	4 13 18 22 38 41
2022-02-16	17	5th	8 9 14 17 22 35
2021-12-15	13	2nd	3 22 28 30 33 39
2021-10-30	1	4th	11 16 18 22 32 35
2021-10-27	27	5th	8 9 13 21 22 25
2021-07-24	7	3rd	3 8 22 26 29 41
2021-06-30	8	5th	1 2 14 15 22 36
2021-06-02	8	4th	4 7 19 22 26 41
2021-05-05	7	4th	11 15 16 22 26 39
2021-04-10	9	3rd	7 16 22 30 38 40
2021-03-10	4	2nd	4 22 23 26 32 34
2021-02-24	3	3rd	8 10 22 32 34 37
2021-02-13	3	2nd	16 22 25 32 40 41
2021-02-03	9	3rd	3 12 22 27 32 41
2021-01-02	6	2nd	7 22 24 28 29 35
2020-12-12	1	5th	8 13 14 15 22 28
2020-12-09	4	4th	3 6 18 22 23 26
2020-11-25	6	5th	3 9 10 21 22 34
2020-11-04	4	2nd	18 22 28 31 35 38
2020-10-21	2	3rd	3 18 22 33 38 39
2020-10-14	9	2nd	10 22 32 33 39 40
2020-09-12	7	5th	5 11 14 20 22 29
2020-08-19	—	4th	10 11 15 22 24 38