Number 6

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.23σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

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

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, +0.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 139 draws · average wait 8.0 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 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 9.5
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.8
3rd smallest2 · chance 0.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

5 15 3 26 36 40

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-02	21	1st	6 17 26 35 47
2026-09-11	4	3rd	3 5 6 39 49
2026-09-07	7	1st	6 15 23 25 36
2026-08-31	5	1st	6 15

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.