Number 9

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 559 draws, 5 from 1–38.

81times drawn · chance expected 74 +0.93σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

24longest completed wait · 96% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 559 draws against 73.6 expected, +0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 559 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 1 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 smallest31 · chance 29.1
2nd smallest30 · chance 35.9
3rd smallest17 · chance 13.9
4th smallest2 · chance 2.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 21 27 36 1 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 38. 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
2026-10-30	5	2nd	2 9 10 15 26
2026-10-25	7	1st	9 15 19 36 37
2026-10-18	3	1st	9 12 21 22 38
2026-10-15	3	3rd	2 5 9

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-17	16	1st	9 16 17 18 30
2026-05-01	1	2nd	8 9 17 31 33
2026-04-30	13	1st	9 11 20 29 32
2026-04-17	9	1st	9 10 11 13 28
2026-04-08	9	2nd	7 9 21 29 36
2026-03-30	5	2nd	1 9 13 28 36
2026-03-25	18	1st	9 28 29 35 38
2026-03-07	2	2nd	1 9 21 28 38
2026-03-05	5	3rd	3 8 9 14 30
2026-02-28	11	2nd	3 9 12 16 32
2026-02-17	4	2nd	6 9 11 22 32
2026-02-13	7	3rd	4 5 9 21 33
2026-02-06	18	1st	9 22 24 28 31
2026-01-19	1	1st	9 13 26 34 36
2026-01-18	4	2nd	4 9 16 27 28
2026-01-14	2	3rd	5 6 9 20 21
2026-01-12	6	3rd	5 8 9 22 30
2026-01-06	2	2nd	4 9 22 26 33
2026-01-04	10	1st	9 13 20 33 37
2025-12-25	2	2nd	8 9 11 23 37
2025-12-23	3	2nd	5 9 14 19 34
2025-12-20	2	2nd	6 9 13 14 32
2025-12-18	16	1st	9 28 30 31 36
2025-12-02	2	2nd	8 9 16 20 23
2025-11-30	12	1st	9 13 16 23 27
2025-11-18	2	1st	9 21 27 36 38
2025-11-16	9	3rd	1 4 9 12 25
2025-11-07	2	2nd	6 9 24 25 31
2025-11-05	2	3rd	2 6 9 23 27
2025-11-03	5	1st	9 15 16 19 29
2025-10-29	4	1st	9 10 14 20 25
2025-10-25	10	2nd	5 9 18 25 37
2025-10-15	8	1st	9 13 17 22 23
2025-10-07	15	1st	9 10 14 15 23
2025-09-22	8	2nd	3 9 20 21 23
2025-09-14	2	1st	9 11 17 21 22
2025-09-12	1	1st	9 11 19 24 36
2025-09-11	6	2nd	7 9 23 28 35
2025-09-05	2	3rd	2 8 9 14 21
2025-09-03	19	1st	9 23 26 34 38
2025-08-15	12	3rd	1 4 9 11 34
2025-08-03	7	1st	9 18 27 31 38
2025-07-27	6	1st	9 14 17 27 29
2025-07-21	3	4th	5 7 8 9 26
2025-07-18	1	2nd	4 9 27 34 38
2025-07-17	13	2nd	4 9 18 21 35
2025-07-04	2	1st	9 13 14 16 23
2025-07-02	11	1st	9 16 18 30 36
2025-06-21	1	2nd	6 9 10 16 29
2025-06-20	5	1st	9 12 19 31 35
2025-06-15	8	2nd	7 9 18 27 29
2025-06-07	15	3rd	1 3 9 23 32
2025-05-23	6	1st	9 27 30 32 37
2025-05-17	1	3rd	6 8 9 27 38
2025-05-16	3	2nd	6 9 15 19 27
2025-05-13	12	2nd	8 9 14 25 31
2025-05-01	—	5th	1 2 5 8 9