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Number 18

In Powerbucks Wheel of Fortune under the 6/36 · since Apr 2025 rules — 486 draws, 6 from 1–36.

83times drawn · chance expected 81 +0.24σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 6.0

28longest completed wait · 45% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 486 draws against 81.0 expected, +0.24σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 486 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 28 · 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 smallest1 · chance 2.2
2nd smallest16 · chance 13.3
3rd smallest29 · chance 28.4
4th smallest26 · chance 26.6
5th smallest8 · chance 11.0
6th smallest3 · chance 1.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 9 15 17 20 33

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 35 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 36. 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
2026-10-18	3	3rd	6 10 18 26 28 32
2026-10-09	6	2nd	1 18 20 24 29 34
2026-09-18	11	3rd	7 11 18 32 35

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 6/36 tonight whatever it did last week.

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