Number 9

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

80times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.48σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 89% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

34longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 80 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −0.48σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 80 times in 791 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 2 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 smallest29 · chance 36.2
2nd smallest37 · chance 33.1
3rd smallest14 · chance 9.6
4th smallest0 · chance 1.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 1 15 21 29 34

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, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
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
2026-10-05	5	2nd	7 9 15 35 47
2026-09-17	8	2nd	5 9 15 33 43
2026-08-20	16	2nd	6 9 29 32 47
2026-06-25	31	2nd	1 9 26 28

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

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