Number 6

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

15times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.19σ

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

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

12longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.19σ. 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 2 times, counted separately.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 92 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 12 · 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 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 smallest11 · chance 8.4
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.1
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 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 9 16 18 28 35

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 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
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
2026-09-30	2	1st	6 13 15 18 29 35
2026-09-23	12	1st	6 13 16 17 35 46
2026-08-12	8	2nd	3 6 7 9 27 48
2026-07-15	8	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: 6 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.