Number 9

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

9times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.72σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

16longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.72σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 1 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 3.5
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.8
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.5
4th smallest2 · chance 0.2
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 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 27 48 3 10 22

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 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 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
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
2026-10-07	16	1st	9 10 11 22 24 39
2026-08-12	8	4th	3 6 7 9 27 48
2026-07-15	16	2nd	6 9 10 13 16 32
2026-05-20	16	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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.