Number 9

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

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.79σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

21longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, +0.79σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 1 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 smallest10 · chance 8.0
2nd smallest5 · chance 6.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

42 24 29 5 15 23

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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
2026-10-10	2	2nd	5 9 17 36 42
2026-10-08	3	1st	9 15 23 27 39
2026-10-05	9	1st	9 30 42 43 48
2026-09-26	13	1st	9 11

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.