Number 18

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

7times drawn · chance expected 14 −2.07σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

13.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

29longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −2.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws · average wait 13.7 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 8 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 smallest0 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.6
4th smallest2 · chance 1.5
5th smallest0 · 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 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 6 13 25 26 30

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 45. 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
2026-08-16	8	3rd	8 13 18 24 26 40
2026-06-21	10	3rd	7 17 18 30 43 45
2026-04-12	2	2nd	14 18 25 27 30 45

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.