Number 9

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

10times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.95σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

29longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 29 · 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 9 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 smallest4 · chance 3.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.3
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.6
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 30 7 17 31 42

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 49. 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	3	2nd	5 9 10 15 34 37
2026-09-23	29	3rd	6 7 9 30 31 43
2026-06-13	1	2nd	3 9 12 14 17 31
2026-06-10	5	1st

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: 9 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.