Number 6

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

75times drawn · chance expected 92 −1.89σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 34% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

41longest completed wait · 14% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 75 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, −1.89σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 75 times in 642 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 41 · waiting 8 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 smallest40 · chance 37.7
2nd smallest26 · chance 29.5
3rd smallest8 · chance 7.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
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 9.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 19 26 13 20 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 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 42. 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
2026-09-12	13	1st	6 7 15 22 24 26
2026-07-29	2	2nd	4 6 24 26 29 38
2026-07-22	2	1st	6 7 18 29 37 39
2026-07-15	5	1st	6

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-06-04	13	1st	6 8 11 20 21 26
2025-04-19	1	3rd	1 4 6 11 21 31
2025-04-16	15	1st	6 12 15 17 23 26
2025-02-22	3	1st	6 10 16 19 37 38
2025-02-12	26	1st	6 9 18 19 27 34
2024-11-09	29	1st	6 16 20 32 35 36
2024-07-31	27	2nd	3 6 10 17 22 37
2024-04-27	1	3rd	2 3 6 9 21 27
2024-04-24	15	2nd	5 6 20 26 38 40
2024-03-02	3	2nd	2 6 8 19 30 37
2024-02-21	6	4th	1 3 5 6 12 20
2024-01-31	11	1st	6 25 30 33 36 39
2023-12-23	6	2nd	4 6 8 20 23 30
2023-12-02	14	1st	6 7 13 16 26 35
2023-10-14	9	1st	6 8 16 19 23 26
2023-09-13	7	3rd	3 4 6 14 22 38
2023-08-19	3	1st	6 12 15 20 29 35
2023-08-09	5	1st	6 18 25 28 37 38
2023-07-22	4	1st	6 8 13 19 22 41
2023-07-08	4	1st	6 15 16 24 28 32
2023-06-24	1	1st	6 14 21 23 35 41
2023-06-21	2	2nd	4 6 14 16 24 30
2023-06-14	1	1st	6 8 12 19 24 33
2023-06-10	8	3rd	1 4 6 11 31 41
2023-05-13	3	1st	6 10 13 16 34 41
2023-05-03	15	2nd	4 6 8 10 24 28
2023-03-11	20	1st	6 9 11 13 17 19
2022-12-31	24	2nd	5 6 10 13 19 26
2022-10-08	1	2nd	1 6 8 11 33 39
2022-10-05	14	1st	6 21 24 25 27 37
2022-08-17	3	1st	6 7 15 19 21 41
2022-08-06	11	1st	6 15 16 31 36 40
2022-06-29	7	2nd	2 6 11 19 20 27
2022-06-04	41	2nd	1 6 31 33 35 40
2022-01-12	1	1st	6 11 20 31 40 41
2022-01-08	16	1st	6 9 13 18 19 37
2021-11-10	6	3rd	3 4 6 12 19 38
2021-10-20	2	2nd	2 6 7 10 11 12
2021-10-13	1	3rd	2 4 6 24 37 40
2021-10-09	15	1st	6 20 21 29 36 39
2021-08-18	13	2nd	2 6 8 11 12 34
2021-07-03	4	1st	6 12 13 14 33 40
2021-06-19	24	2nd	3 6 20 30 34 36
2021-03-27	4	1st	6 9 28 29 31 36
2021-03-13	7	2nd	3 6 8 12 26 35
2021-02-17	7	3rd	2 3 6 18 26 39
2021-01-23	13	1st	6 9 12 33 35 38
2020-12-09	5	2nd	3 6 18 22 23 26
2020-11-21	13	1st	6 10 13 15 26 42
2020-10-07	8	2nd	5 6 8 10 36 39
2020-09-09	—	1st	6 9 15 17 25 33