Number 18

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.78σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 24% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

20longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.78σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 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 17 times in 107 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 11 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 smallest0 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest8 · chance 6.2
4th smallest4 · chance 3.7
5th smallest1 · chance 1.0
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.

16 7 17 25 35 43

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 6 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 45. 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
2026-07-25	2	2nd	4 18 20 22 27 28
2026-07-11	9	2nd	10 18 19 24 25 43
2026-05-09	17	3rd	7 11 18 35 36 45
2026-01-10	3	4th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.