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18

Number 18

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

12times drawn · chance expected 10 +0.85σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 76% for any number
8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3
21longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long
18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, +0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

18

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 4 draws now

1 draws: 2024-11-02 to 2024-11-0921 draws: 2024-11-09 to 2025-04-057 draws: 2025-04-05 to 2025-05-243 draws: 2025-05-24 to 2025-06-141 draws: 2025-06-14 to 2025-06-216 draws: 2025-06-21 to 2025-08-026 draws: 2025-08-02 to 2025-09-1317 draws: 2025-09-13 to 2026-01-1011 draws: 2026-01-10 to 2026-03-2819 draws: 2026-03-28 to 2026-08-085 draws: 2026-08-08 to 2026-09-12Still waiting — at least 4 draws since 2026-09-122024-11-022024-11-092025-04-052025-05-242025-06-142025-06-212025-08-022025-09-132026-01-102026-03-282026-08-082026-09-122024-09-282026-10-10

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 2 times2 draws: 0 times3 draws: 1 time4 draws: 0 times5 draws: 1 time6 draws: 2 times7 draws: 1 time8 draws: 0 times9 draws: 0 times10 draws: 0 times11 draws: 1 time12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 0 times16 draws: 0 times17 draws: 1 time18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 1 time20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 1 time22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

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 smallest2 · chance 2.7
  • 2nd smallest5 · chance 5.4
  • 3rd smallest2 · chance 3.3
  • 4th smallest3 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

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Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 19 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

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-09-1252nd8182343
2026-08-08193rd6131834
2026-03-28111st18232835
2026-01-10172nd2182832
2025-09-1364th23518
2025-08-0264th141518
2025-06-2112nd6183237
2025-06-1434th2131518
2025-05-2472nd10184044
2025-04-05212nd16183637
2024-11-0911st18394043
2024-11-02—3rd6121837
← number 17Every numbernumber 19 →
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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.