Number 11

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 148 draws, 6 from 1–49.

18times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.03σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

23longest completed wait · 63% chance of one at least that long

11 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 148 draws against 18.1 expected, −0.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 11, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 148 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 6 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 11 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 smallest5 · chance 5.3
2nd smallest7 · chance 7.8
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

26 30 5 6 33 2

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 11 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 49. 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 11 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-30	8	3rd	2 3 11 25 29 48
2026-09-02	4	3rd	4 9 11 26 39 45
2026-08-19	2	2nd	6 11 13 22 33 40
2026-08-12	14	1st

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: 11 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.