Number 18

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.32σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 58% for any number

10.7average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

28longest completed wait · 54% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.32σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 159 draws · average wait 10.7 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 6 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 smallest3 · chance 2.4
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.9
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.9
4th smallest0 · chance 1.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 30 35 39 1 12

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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
2026-09-21	5	2nd	3 18 30 35 44
2026-09-03	3	3rd	13 17 18 36 46
2026-08-24	8	2nd	12 18 20 30 37
2026-07-27	12	3rd	6 16 18 32

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.