In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 5 from 1–35.
25times drawn · chance expected 22 +0.76σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
6.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0
27longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long
18 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 25 times in 152 draws against 21.7 expected, +0.76σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
18
Number 18, draw by draw
Drawn 25 times in 152 draws · average wait 6.3 draws · longest completed wait 27 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 2 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 35. 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 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.