Number 10

In Lotto Plus 1 under the 6/47 + 1/47 · since Sep 2024 rules — 213 draws, 6 from 1–47.

18times drawn · chance expected 27 −1.89σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

12.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.8

35longest completed wait · 15% chance of one at least that long

10 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 213 draws against 27.2 expected, −1.89σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 7 times, counted separately.

Number 10, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 213 draws · average wait 12.4 draws · longest completed wait 35 · 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 10 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 5.7
2nd smallest8 · chance 7.8
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.7
4th smallest1 · chance 0.7
5th smallest1 · 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 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 2 9 11 41 15

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 46 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 10 is picked about 1.41× as often as an indifferent choice — 5th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 10 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-03	1	2nd	1 10 18 32 36 37
2026-09-30	29	3rd	1 6 10 25 35 43
2026-06-20	35	4th	4 7 9 10 17 26
2026-02-18	1	5th	1

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: 10 is drawn with probability 6/47 tonight whatever it did last week.