Number 18

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 110 draws, 4 from 1–35.

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.43σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

27longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 110 draws against 12.6 expected, +0.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 110 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 7 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 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.

1st smallest4 · chance 1.6
2nd smallest2 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.4
4th smallest2 · chance 1.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 21 6 12 14 16

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 10 such strangers 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.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 18 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-17	2	3rd	10 17 18 33
2026-09-10	2	1st	18 19 21 35
2026-09-03	11	4th	10 11 14 18
2026-07-27	11	1st	18 25 26 31
2026-06-18	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: 18 is drawn with probability 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.