Number 18

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–45.

18times drawn · chance expected 14 +1.02σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

20longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, +1.02σ. 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 4 times, counted separately.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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 18 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 smallest0 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest9 · chance 6.6
4th smallest4 · chance 4.0
5th smallest1 · chance 1.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 7 17 25 35 43

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 6 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 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-17	12	3rd	8 12 18 22 30 33
2026-07-25	2	2nd	4 18 20 22 27 28
2026-07-11	9	2nd	10 18 19 24 25 43
2026-05-09	17	3rd

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.