Number 9

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 4 from 1–35.

6times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.94σ

33draws waiting · a wait this long: 2% for any number

14.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

30longest completed wait · 14% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, −1.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 33 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 109 draws · average wait 14.2 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 33 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 smallest4 · chance 2.6
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.7
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 21 26 1 11 12

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 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
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
2026-06-15	30	1st	9 12 20 21
2026-03-02	12	1st	9 25 26 30
2026-01-19	17	3rd	1 6 9 21
2025-11-20	6	2nd	6 9 26 34
2025-10-30	6

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.