Number 6

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

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 56% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

31longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.78σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 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 6, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 107 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 5 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 smallest6 · chance 9.0
2nd smallest9 · chance 6.4
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

15 21 22 2 11 45

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, 6 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th 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
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
2026-09-05	3	2nd	3 6 20 25 26 32
2026-08-15	7	3rd	1 2 6 22 33 37
2026-06-27	1	1st	6 17 23 34 39 45
2026-06-20	1	2nd

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.