Number 9

In Western Max under the 7/50 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 7 from 1–50.

14times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.51σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

24longest completed wait · 34% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.51σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.4 draws · longest completed wait 24 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 4.5
2nd smallest7 · chance 6.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 31 33 35 42 44

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 50. 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
2026-10-09	22	3rd	1 5 9 14 33 44 45
2026-07-24	16	2nd	7 9 11 18 31 43 47
2026-05-29	24	1st	9 26 29 35 37 39

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.