Number 6

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

93times drawn · chance expected 84 +1.02σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

39longest completed wait · 72% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 93 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, +1.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 93 times in 791 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 15 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 smallest55 · chance 57.7
2nd smallest34 · chance 30.4
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 18 29 34 9 4

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 47. 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
2026-08-20	7	1st	6 9 29 32 47
2026-07-27	1	1st	6 14 15 34 39
2026-07-23	16	2nd	2 6 10 18 30
2026-05-28	8	1st	6 10 11 19

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-09-19	3	2nd	5 6 30 46 47
2024-09-09	9	2nd	4 6 32 35 45
2024-08-08	2	1st	6 10 17 24 40
2024-08-01	1	2nd	2 6 18 24 34
2024-07-29	4	1st	6 8 11 24 45
2024-07-15	4	2nd	2 6 10 29 47
2024-07-01	4	2nd	4 6 8 19 34
2024-06-17	14	1st	6 22 23 36 41
2024-04-29	3	1st	6 18 22 29 40
2024-04-18	3	1st	6 18 26 35 41
2024-04-08	11	3rd	3 5 6 36 43
2024-02-29	5	2nd	4 6 28 29 45
2024-02-12	6	1st	6 20 27 29 36
2024-01-22	18	1st	6 23 26 27 34
2023-11-20	6	1st	6 9 11 22 46
2023-10-30	6	1st	6 12 13 18 19
2023-10-09	1	1st	6 11 29 40 44
2023-10-05	3	2nd	5 6 18 39 45
2023-09-25	9	1st	6 12 13 15 41
2023-08-24	8	2nd	5 6 29 30 40
2023-07-27	14	1st	6 11 12 20 29
2023-06-08	19	1st	6 13 17 37 44
2023-04-03	2	3rd	3 4 6 36 39
2023-03-27	9	1st	6 16 20 44 47
2023-02-23	3	2nd	1 6 29 30 40
2023-02-13	17	2nd	4 6 9 17 18
2022-12-15	18	1st	6 9 12 30 46
2022-10-13	11	1st	6 15 34 42 46
2022-09-05	11	1st	6 14 20 29 33
2022-07-28	10	2nd	3 6 15 26 33
2022-06-23	9	2nd	1 6 9 33 38
2022-05-23	2	2nd	2 6 21 24 25
2022-05-16	2	1st	6 13 17 20 43
2022-05-09	5	1st	6 7 9 31 38
2022-04-21	16	1st	6 25 30 36 46
2022-02-24	6	2nd	5 6 25 31 40
2022-02-03	39	1st	6 16 22 44 47
2021-09-20	8	1st	6 17 25 26 39
2021-08-23	6	1st	6 16 19 34 37
2021-08-02	14	1st	6 8 9 37 39
2021-06-14	18	1st	6 13 19 20 36
2021-04-12	22	1st	6 26 32 38 44
2021-01-25	27	1st	6 17 36 45 47
2020-10-22	3	2nd	2 6 15 21 43
2020-10-12	4	1st	6 9 10 22 30
2020-09-28	5	1st	6 23 38 41 42
2020-09-10	7	1st	6 7 21 38 39
2020-08-17	6	1st	6 18 24 34 37
2020-07-27	11	1st	6 10 20 27 36
2020-06-18	2	1st	6 8 28 32 44
2020-06-11	7	2nd	5 6 15 22 32
2020-05-18	7	1st	6 17 23 43 45
2020-04-23	20	2nd	2 6 25 32 46
2020-02-13	12	1st	6 17 23 26 29
2020-01-02	13	2nd	1 6 13 32 41
2019-11-18	1	1st	6 18 23 33 40
2019-11-14	12	2nd	5 6 19 38 47
2019-10-03	1	1st	6 11 32 43 45
2019-09-30	27	2nd	4 6 20 29 34
2019-06-27	2	2nd	3 6 34 43 47
2019-06-20	12	1st	6 10 27 40 45
2019-05-09	1	2nd	3 6 9 32 47
2019-05-06	2	2nd	2 6 7 30 37
2019-04-29	3	1st	6 8 13 20 28
2019-04-18	3	2nd	3 6 16 24 29
2019-04-08	2	2nd	1 6 19 24 35
2019-04-01	2	1st	6 15 24 35 41
2019-03-25	2	2nd	2 6 9 23 30
2019-03-18	—	2nd	4 6 17 20 35