Number 9

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

12times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.85σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

30longest completed wait · 13% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 30 · 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 9 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 smallest6 · chance 3.9
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.4
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 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 14 15 25 28 29

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 43. 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-01	3	1st	9 14 23 28 31 43
2026-09-21	5	1st	9 13 14 22 28 29
2026-09-03	8	3rd	6 8 9 17 19 25
2026-08-06	13	2nd

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: 9 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.