Number 9

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

11times drawn · chance expected 18 −1.71σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

13.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −1.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 145 draws · average wait 13.1 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 11 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 smallest5 · chance 4.2
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.8
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 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 20 26 39 44 49

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 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
2026-09-02	13	2nd	4 9 11 26 39 45
2026-07-18	1	1st	9 10 30 37 39 49
2026-07-15	24	2nd	4 9 14 26 44 46
2026-04-22	19	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.