Number 22

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

16times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.22σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

5.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

17longest completed wait · 76% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, +0.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 109 draws · average wait 5.3 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 2 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.4
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.3
4th smallest6 · chance 5.3
5th smallest4 · chance 2.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 10 26 28 3 8

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 6 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 43. 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
2026-10-05	4	4th	6 8 10 22 26 28
2026-09-21	2	4th	9 13 14 22 28 29
2026-09-14	2	4th	5 11 19 22 28 41
2026-09-07	4	4th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.