Number 6

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

10times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.22σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

12longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +1.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 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 6, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 52 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 12 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 6 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 smallest8 · chance 5.2
2nd smallest2 · chance 3.8
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

43 23 10 11 33 7

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 6 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 52. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 6 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	3	1st	6 10 19 25 29 39 50
2026-09-29	3	1st	6 10 13 22 23 43 49
2026-09-18	12	1st	6 8 11 14 30 39 41

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: 6 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.