Number 9

In Daily Million Plus 2pm under the 6/39 + 1/38 · Apr 2016 – Jul 2016 rules — 86 draws, 6 from 1–39 (an earlier era).

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.07σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number

5.2average wait between appearances · chance says 6.5

14longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 86 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.07σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 86 draws · average wait 5.2 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 6 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 smallest4 · chance 3.7
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.7
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.6
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th 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.

10 34 21 23 27 29

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 38 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 39. 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
2016-07-13	14	1st	9 26 28 29 30 38
2016-06-29	2	2nd	4 9 32 33 37 38
2016-06-27	1	1st	9 14 15 23 31 34

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 6/39 tonight whatever it did last week.