Number 6

In Oz Lotto under the 7/45 + 2/45 · Jan 2009 – May 2022 rules — 697 draws, 7 from 1–45 (an earlier era).

107times drawn · chance expected 108 −0.15σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 6.4

29longest completed wait · 61% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 107 times in 697 draws against 108.4 expected, −0.15σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 37 times, counted separately.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 107 times in 697 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 29 · 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 6 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 smallest55 · chance 49.5
2nd smallest38 · chance 43.6
3rd smallest14 · chance 12.5
4th smallest0 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 14.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 22 36 40 3 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 6 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 45. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 6 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2022-05-10	3	3rd	1 3 6 7 19 42 43
2022-04-19	5	2nd	5 6 15 21 27 32 37
2022-03-15	2	1st	6 7 12 17 33 37

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: 6 is drawn with probability 7/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2019-04-16	4	1st	6 9 12 21 22 36 40
2019-03-19	5	1st	6 13 14 22 28 40 41
2019-02-12	1	3rd	3 5 6 10 12 36 39
2019-02-05	21	2nd	1 6 7 8 16 37 41
2018-09-11	17	3rd	2 4 6 23 30 32 36
2018-05-15	14	2nd	3 6 12 13 29 40 41
2018-02-06	8	1st	6 11 22 35 40 41 43
2017-12-12	6	3rd	3 4 6 7 31 35 43
2017-10-31	5	1st	6 21 23 30 32 42 44
2017-09-26	1	1st	6 8 13 14 33 41 45
2017-09-19	6	1st	6 14 15 29 31 37 42
2017-08-08	2	1st	6 15 21 25 40 43 45
2017-07-25	4	3rd	1 4 6 15 22 29 39
2017-06-27	12	2nd	3 6 8 22 26 40 41
2017-04-04	2	2nd	1 6 8 23 33 36 45
2017-03-21	1	1st	6 15 25 27 31 33 44
2017-03-14	1	2nd	2 6 10 14 25 28 31
2017-03-07	18	2nd	4 6 17 18 21 33 37
2016-11-01	2	1st	6 9 17 22 27 41 43
2016-10-18	19	2nd	3 6 9 13 23 37 43
2016-06-07	1	1st	6 8 14 16 22 29 34
2016-05-31	5	1st	6 9 15 21 23 33 44
2016-04-26	11	3rd	1 5 6 15 19 41 45
2016-02-09	8	1st	6 11 22 30 35 37 40
2015-12-15	17	2nd	4 6 8 20 33 37 44
2015-08-18	13	2nd	3 6 7 25 29 32 42
2015-05-19	12	3rd	2 4 6 14 16 25 27
2015-02-24	2	3rd	3 4 6 18 21 23 31
2015-02-10	5	1st	6 32 36 39 40 42 44
2015-01-06	2	2nd	2 6 11 19 35 39 40
2014-12-23	8	1st	6 13 17 19 25 34 37
2014-10-28	1	1st	6 9 20 21 22 38 40
2014-10-21	2	1st	6 14 17 19 25 32 34
2014-10-07	2	2nd	3 6 15 19 20 23 28
2014-09-23	19	1st	6 15 16 22 35 39 43
2014-05-13	5	2nd	4 6 14 20 23 26 35
2014-04-08	15	1st	6 12 18 19 24 25 35
2013-12-24	4	2nd	4 6 22 24 33 36 42
2013-11-26	2	2nd	5 6 12 24 26 31 40
2013-11-12	1	2nd	5 6 8 29 30 36 38
2013-11-05	16	2nd	3 6 10 17 18 37 45
2013-07-16	5	2nd	2 6 9 33 36 42 43
2013-06-11	6	2nd	3 6 24 25 26 29 38
2013-04-30	3	1st	6 12 26 27 32 39 44
2013-04-09	10	2nd	3 6 8 23 32 36 45
2013-01-29	19	1st	6 19 22 34 36 38 39
2012-09-18	2	1st	6 7 11 12 14 16 17
2012-09-04	6	1st	6 18 20 32 33 34 44
2012-07-24	9	1st	6 20 29 31 36 40 43
2012-05-22	2	1st	6 12 14 22 33 38 45
2012-05-08	1	1st	6 8 17 28 34 41 42
2012-05-01	1	2nd	2 6 25 29 34 36 37
2012-04-24	2	2nd	4 6 11 16 19 27 45
2012-04-10	7	1st	6 15 22 35 36 42 45
2012-02-21	6	1st	6 13 14 19 31 41 45
2012-01-10	2	2nd	5 6 7 8 37 39 44
2011-12-27	4	1st	6 9 12 18 20 35 38
2011-11-29	2	2nd	5 6 9 12 15 33 34
2011-11-15	1	1st	6 7 8 9 20 22 28
2011-11-08	3	3rd	1 3 6 15 18 21 34
2011-10-18	1	1st	6 10 15 16 36 43 45
2011-10-11	4	1st	6 8 12 25 32 39 44
2011-09-13	5	1st	6 18 20 24 31 37 38
2011-08-09	5	1st	6 14 26 27 29 33 39
2011-07-05	27	1st	6 20 28 29 33 34 40
2010-12-28	9	1st	6 14 22 35 36 37 43
2010-10-26	4	1st	6 8 20 32 36 40 44
2010-09-28	10	1st	6 15 25 26 32 33 40
2010-07-20	1	3rd	3 5 6 7 13 23 34
2010-07-13	3	1st	6 13 16 23 27 31 39
2010-06-22	3	3rd	2 3 6 14 23 29 41
2010-06-01	5	1st	6 14 15 16 18 30 40
2010-04-27	5	3rd	3 4 6 12 18 22 42
2010-03-23	11	1st	6 9 14 23 26 30 44
2010-01-05	1	2nd	3 6 10 11 26 35 39
2009-12-29	6	1st	6 12 13 22 27 28 33
2009-11-17	2	2nd	4 6 25 27 31 33 34
2009-11-03	2	3rd	2 4 6 7 15 17 36
2009-10-20	10	1st	6 24 25 27 32 36 38
2009-08-11	2	1st	6 8 17 29 40 41 43
2009-07-28	12	2nd	3 6 10 11 15 35 43
2009-05-05	7	1st	6 10 12 20 24 31 42
2009-03-17	—	1st	6 16 23 25 27 32 37