Number 22

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 232 draws, 5 from 1–58.

15times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.17σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 41% for any number

15.4average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

30longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

22 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −1.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 22, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 232 draws · average wait 15.4 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 11 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 smallest1 · chance 2.2
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.7
3rd smallest7 · chance 5.0
4th smallest2 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

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.

8 14 23 35 54 58

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 58. 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
2026-09-30	5	3rd	13 18 22 23 51
2026-09-25	20	3rd	11 15 22 50 53
2026-09-05	24	2nd	8 22 24 38 58
2026-08-12	3	2nd	8 22

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.