Star 9

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 2 from 1–10.

14times drawn · chance expected 30 −3.33σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 3% for any number

9.9average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

37longest completed wait · 0.4% chance of one at least that long

9 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 10

Drawn 14 times in 152 draws against 30.4 expected, −3.33σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 152 draws · average wait 9.9 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 17 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 1.6
2nd smallest14 · chance 12.4

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.

3 4 5

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 9 numbers; chance expects about 2 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 10. 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
2026-08-12	9	2nd	4 9
2026-07-22	3	2nd	3 9
2026-07-15	9	2nd	4 9
2026-06-24	4	2nd	3 9
2026-06-15	5	2nd	4 9
2026-06-03	37	2nd	3 9
2026-03-06	5

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 2/10 tonight whatever it did last week.