Number 9

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

9times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.50σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 16% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

22longest completed wait · 33% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −1.50σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 14 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 smallest4 · chance 3.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
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 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

42 16 18 2 5 11

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 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
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
2026-07-04	11	3rd	2 5 9 25 42 45
2026-04-18	15	1st	9 11 16 19 20 26
2026-01-03	21	2nd	2 9 11 22 25 42
2025-08-09	3	1st

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.