Number 18

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

10times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.40σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

17longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 3 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 smallest1 · chance 1.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.6
4th smallest1 · chance 1.8
5th smallest1 · chance 0.4
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.

6 43 7 13 17 19

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 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 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	9	4th	6 13 15 18 29 35
2026-08-29	10	3rd	7 17 18 32 41 48
2026-07-25	6	3rd	2 13 18 19 43 46
2026-07-04	15	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: 18 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.