Number 6

In Lotto under the 6/44 · since Jan 2010 rules — 1,751 draws, 6 from 1–44.

238times drawn · chance expected 239 −0.05σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.3

63longest completed wait · 3% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 238 times in 1,751 draws against 238.8 expected, −0.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 238 times in 1,751 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 63 · 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 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 smallest113 · chance 124.1
2nd smallest99 · chance 91.3
3rd smallest23 · chance 20.9
4th smallest3 · chance 1.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 27.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 21 10 32 40 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 43 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 44. 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
2026-09-18	5	2nd	3 6 13 26 32 40
2026-09-01	26	1st	6 17 19 23 25 44
2026-06-02	5	1st	6 25 32 36 37 43
2026-05-15	7	2nd	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: 6 is drawn with probability 6/44 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-10-22	7	1st	6 8 12 28 32 36
2024-09-27	2	3rd	1 3 6 13 30 42
2024-09-20	1	1st	6 10 18 22 26 36
2024-09-17	18	1st	6 9 19 23 32 42
2024-07-16	1	2nd	4 6 7 15 38 44
2024-07-12	1	2nd	4 6 12 30 39 44
2024-07-09	1	3rd	1 2 6 12 17 32
2024-07-05	4	2nd	4 6 12 14 29 42
2024-06-21	3	2nd	3 6 11 13 19 24
2024-06-11	10	2nd	2 6 11 17 34 37
2024-05-07	1	1st	6 10 11 21 28 37
2024-05-03	1	2nd	3 6 21 28 34 37
2024-04-30	7	1st	6 10 11 25 28 33
2024-04-05	14	1st	6 12 14 23 37 42
2024-02-16	4	1st	6 17 22 28 33 43
2024-02-02	14	1st	6 19 23 41 43 44
2023-12-15	3	1st	6 21 27 28 35 40
2023-12-05	6	4th	1 2 4 6 30 37
2023-11-14	13	2nd	4 6 14 16 18 21
2023-09-29	5	1st	6 7 15 22 28 42
2023-09-12	7	1st	6 9 18 29 30 41
2023-08-18	4	1st	6 11 26 30 39 40
2023-08-04	3	2nd	3 6 8 14 36 43
2023-07-25	1	2nd	4 6 10 19 36 44
2023-07-21	1	1st	6 8 9 12 20 26
2023-07-18	9	2nd	3 6 11 19 20 25
2023-06-16	18	1st	6 17 22 28 32 35
2023-04-14	6	1st	6 10 17 18 33 35
2023-03-24	8	2nd	3 6 10 35 38 42
2023-02-24	1	1st	6 25 26 27 41 44
2023-02-21	6	2nd	2 6 23 28 31 41
2023-01-31	3	2nd	1 6 14 17 23 40
2023-01-20	1	2nd	3 6 18 23 33 34
2023-01-17	8	1st	6 21 22 24 32 41
2022-12-20	19	1st	6 16 19 30 32 44
2022-10-14	3	1st	6 23 27 32 43 44
2022-10-04	2	3rd	1 3 6 9 21 39
2022-09-27	3	1st	6 7 16 22 29 33
2022-09-16	1	1st	6 13 19 21 32 38
2022-09-13	2	3rd	1 4 6 13 30 40
2022-09-06	10	1st	6 16 18 21 31 32
2022-08-02	1	1st	6 10 15 25 26 31
2022-07-29	20	2nd	2 6 7 26 28 30
2022-05-20	7	2nd	4 6 13 18 19 38
2022-04-26	7	1st	6 7 11 24 36 42
2022-04-01	1	3rd	2 5 6 35 36 43
2022-03-29	1	2nd	1 6 13 41 43 44
2022-03-25	2	3rd	2 3 6 35 37 41
2022-03-18	24	1st	6 7 17 19 24 43
2021-12-24	8	3rd	1 4 6 18 21 27
2021-11-26	11	2nd	3 6 16 29 41 44
2021-10-19	12	1st	6 8 9 23 24 39
2021-09-07	1	1st	6 13 16 18 34 37
2021-09-03	4	1st	6 16 17 24 31 38
2021-08-20	13	2nd	2 6 7 16 17 21
2021-07-06	3	2nd	1 6 12 13 26 40
2021-06-25	1	2nd	1 6 8 38 39 42
2021-06-22	6	2nd	4 6 14 19 35 36
2021-06-01	3	1st	6 8 12 18 32 41
2021-05-21	22	1st	6 14 36 41 42 43
2021-03-05	7	2nd	1 6 13 20 23 29
2021-02-09	17	1st	6 12 14 23 33 38
2020-12-11	16	2nd	4 6 11 32 37 38
2020-10-16	63	1st	6 7 12 22 31 42
2020-03-10	1	1st	6 9 12 17 21 25
2020-03-06	2	2nd	1 6 32 38 39 42
2020-02-28	15	1st	6 16 20 22 30 33
2020-01-07	4	2nd	2 6 12 30 39 41
2019-12-24	2	1st	6 8 9 13 15 35
2019-12-17	25	2nd	1 6 19 34 37 43
2019-09-20	4	2nd	2 6 9 14 28 34
2019-09-06	15	1st	6 10 13 16 18 42
2019-07-16	2	2nd	4 6 11 18 33 39
2019-07-09	3	1st	6 7 9 18 26 32
2019-06-28	11	1st	6 18 23 28 32 35
2019-05-21	2	1st	6 14 22 31 34 40
2019-05-14	6	1st	6 15 25 26 31 40
2019-04-23	8	2nd	3 6 9 20 29 39
2019-03-26	9	1st	6 10 18 21 23 37
2019-02-22	9	1st	6 11 15 16 20 31
2019-01-22	3	2nd	3 6 14 23 30 31
2019-01-11	6	1st	6 10 22 25 32 33
2018-12-21	2	2nd	1 6 10 14 20 35
2018-12-14	14	1st	6 15 21 22 23 28
2018-10-26	9	2nd	3 6 8 20 36 41
2018-09-25	2	2nd	4 6 10 34 35 43
2018-09-18	7	2nd	3 6 27 28 32 41
2018-08-24	1	2nd	5 6 9 20 21 29
2018-08-21	15	2nd	1 6 15 23 25 33
2018-06-29	7	2nd	4 6 36 37 38 41
2018-06-05	23	2nd	3 6 8 25 34 36
2018-03-16	7	1st	6 15 20 22 25 31
2018-02-20	3	2nd	4 6 24 25 38 41
2018-02-09	21	1st	6 7 16 32 37 41
2017-11-28	1	1st	6 8 12 23 25 32
2017-11-24	4	1st	6 8 17 20 21 23
2017-11-10	9	1st	6 11 16 29 38 40
2017-10-10	4	1st	6 9 15 16 23 31
2017-09-26	11	2nd	2 6 14 15 35 43
2017-08-18	9	1st	6 10 21 24 28 39
2017-07-18	2	2nd	5 6 17 27 37 41
2017-07-11	11	2nd	3 6 8 23 31 39
2017-06-02	4	1st	6 8 10 28 32 36
2017-05-19	9	2nd	3 6 17 33 35 36
2017-04-18	16	2nd	5 6 15 21 28 32
2017-02-21	12	1st	6 11 22 24 28 39
2017-01-10	6	2nd	1 6 8 17 21 39
2016-12-20	16	1st	6 17 22 24 36 44
2016-10-25	3	2nd	2 6 16 22 33 36
2016-10-14	6	2nd	1 6 12 17 20 36
2016-09-23	11	2nd	1 6 11 26 33 44
2016-08-16	10	1st	6 18 24 26 27 40
2016-07-12	10	2nd	3 6 13 17 22 31
2016-06-07	1	2nd	5 6 22 23 38 43
2016-06-03	1	2nd	4 6 14 18 34 43
2016-05-31	8	2nd	3 6 13 14 20 29
2016-05-03	9	3rd	1 2 6 15 30 40
2016-04-01	8	2nd	2 6 11 17 28 39
2016-03-04	3	1st	6 7 23 27 35 36
2016-02-23	19	2nd	5 6 15 20 38 40
2015-12-18	8	1st	6 17 18 27 33 43
2015-11-20	3	1st	6 10 12 25 31 37
2015-11-10	1	1st	6 10 18 23 43 44
2015-11-06	19	2nd	2 6 10 16 33 41
2015-09-01	14	2nd	1 6 11 28 29 39
2015-07-14	2	1st	6 18 19 27 36 38
2015-07-07	5	3rd	1 2 6 10 23 30
2015-06-19	3	1st	6 21 27 32 39 42
2015-06-09	1	2nd	2 6 7 20 33 41
2015-06-05	5	3rd	1 3 6 7 21 43
2015-05-19	10	2nd	1 6 16 25 26 38
2015-04-14	8	3rd	3 5 6 31 39 44
2015-03-17	1	2nd	1 6 11 12 40 43
2015-03-13	3	2nd	5 6 11 33 35 38
2015-03-03	3	1st	6 10 16 21 30 35
2015-02-20	6	1st	6 10 17 23 35 40
2015-01-30	4	1st	6 11 13 37 40 42
2015-01-16	2	2nd	5 6 21 31 37 40
2015-01-09	7	2nd	5 6 7 17 21 25
2014-12-16	5	1st	6 9 10 14 22 28
2014-11-28	9	2nd	4 6 7 17 18 32
2014-10-28	1	3rd	1 3 6 26 37 43
2014-10-24	2	3rd	1 5 6 10 28 33
2014-10-17	1	1st	6 15 20 29 30 44
2014-10-14	10	2nd	2 6 13 14 21 41
2014-09-09	23	1st	6 8 36 38 40 42
2014-06-20	14	1st	6 9 14 15 35 41
2014-05-02	7	2nd	4 6 20 32 38 39
2014-04-08	6	2nd	5 6 10 12 28 38
2014-03-18	8	2nd	5 6 13 15 28 44
2014-02-18	9	1st	6 21 25 27 32 42
2014-01-17	6	2nd	3 6 15 16 36 39
2013-12-27	16	1st	6 12 21 28 36 44
2013-11-01	1	1st	6 8 12 25 28 44
2013-10-29	1	2nd	4 6 22 26 37 39
2013-10-25	2	1st	6 20 22 25 26 42
2013-10-18	4	1st	6 11 17 20 32 33
2013-10-04	4	3rd	1 2 6 7 18 21
2013-09-20	3	2nd	2 6 10 16 25 30
2013-09-10	1	1st	6 11 25 26 30 34
2013-09-06	13	1st	6 10 13 20 24 33
2013-07-23	2	2nd	1 6 11 25 34 42
2013-07-16	3	2nd	3 6 15 19 22 25
2013-07-05	9	3rd	1 5 6 35 41 42
2013-06-04	16	3rd	1 2 6 11 24 41
2013-04-09	10	3rd	1 5 6 13 35 40
2013-03-05	4	1st	6 8 16 18 22 35
2013-02-19	2	2nd	2 6 9 23 30 36
2013-02-12	1	1st	6 8 9 16 17 38
2013-02-08	10	1st	6 8 16 22 38 40
2013-01-04	7	1st	6 11 20 26 30 42
2012-12-11	15	1st	6 7 9 35 38 44
2012-10-19	7	1st	6 8 12 21 22 31
2012-09-25	4	2nd	2 6 13 20 30 37
2012-09-11	11	2nd	3 6 9 13 23 37
2012-08-03	4	1st	6 8 17 24 26 40
2012-07-20	2	1st	6 17 19 24 28 32
2012-07-13	1	2nd	1 6 9 27 33 35
2012-07-10	8	2nd	1 6 7 10 15 44
2012-06-12	7	2nd	4 6 9 13 40 41
2012-05-18	3	2nd	4 6 9 32 37 39
2012-05-08	17	1st	6 9 18 20 29 39
2012-03-09	3	1st	6 8 12 16 31 38
2012-02-28	11	3rd	4 5 6 10 11 36
2012-01-20	2	2nd	1 6 10 12 27 43
2012-01-13	7	1st	6 10 23 27 30 43
2011-12-20	5	1st	6 28 30 33 40 43
2011-12-02	6	1st	6 7 15 40 42 44
2011-11-11	2	3rd	1 4 6 24 29 34
2011-11-04	5	2nd	4 6 7 8 15 17
2011-10-18	11	1st	6 10 27 29 32 38
2011-09-09	1	2nd	1 6 9 30 37 43
2011-09-06	2	1st	6 10 12 24 31 36
2011-08-30	2	2nd	5 6 14 39 42 44
2011-08-23	5	2nd	3 6 7 15 19 34
2011-08-05	4	1st	6 26 27 36 39 44
2011-07-22	2	2nd	1 6 9 29 31 40
2011-07-15	7	3rd	3 5 6 33 35 38
2011-06-21	1	1st	6 11 22 32 35 40
2011-06-17	15	2nd	5 6 17 21 26 34
2011-04-26	20	1st	6 7 8 20 26 34
2011-02-15	22	1st	6 14 21 24 29 31
2010-11-30	1	1st	6 9 12 20 21 23
2010-11-26	1	1st	6 9 14 18 32 44
2010-11-23	7	2nd	1 6 9 18 37 39
2010-10-29	25	4th	1 2 5 6 9 43
2010-08-03	27	1st	6 20 33 37 38 44
2010-04-30	2	1st	6 18 21 22 33 42
2010-04-23	5	3rd	2 3 6 10 15 37
2010-04-06	6	2nd	3 6 7 14 16 33
2010-03-16	2	1st	6 8 27 29 43 44
2010-03-09	18	1st	6 17 19 24 40 41
2010-01-05	1	2nd	1 6 11 29 39 41
2010-01-01	—	2nd	1 6 8 12 14 35