Number 18

In BC/49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2024 rules — 202 draws, 6 from 1–49.

18times drawn · chance expected 25 −1.45σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 35% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 40% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 202 draws against 24.7 expected, −1.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 202 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 9 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 18 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 smallest2 · chance 1.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.6
3rd smallest11 · chance 6.4
4th smallest1 · chance 3.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

46 29 1 9 21 33

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 18 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-09	14	3rd	2 8 18 22 28 29
2026-07-22	1	3rd	10 11 18 34 36 38
2026-07-18	11	3rd	4 6 18 33 39 46
2026-06-10	19	3rd	1

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