Number 10

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 146 draws, 6 from 1–46.

14times drawn · chance expected 19 −1.24σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 50% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

35longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

10 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 146 draws against 19.0 expected, −1.24σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 10, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 146 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 35 · 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 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 smallest3 · chance 4.3
2nd smallest8 · chance 6.1
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 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

41 42 11 7 9 12

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 46. 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
2026-09-18	23	2nd	5 10 18 25 32 41
2026-06-30	2	1st	10 11 14 33 41 42
2026-06-23	4	3rd	6 7 10 11 42 46

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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.