In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 727 draws, 5 from 1–55.
67times drawn · chance expected 66 +0.12σ
3draws waiting · a wait this long: 83% for any number
10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0
53longest completed wait · 37% chance of one at least that long
18 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 67 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, +0.12σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
18
Number 18, draw by draw
Drawn 67 times in 727 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 53 · waiting 3 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.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 54 numbers; chance expected about 0.4 still unmet 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 55. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.