Star 7

In Lotto 6aus49 under the 6/49 + 1/9 · since Sep 2024 rules — 217 draws, 1 from 0–9.

18times drawn · chance expected 22 −0.84σ

39draws waiting · a wait this long: 2% for any number

9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

35longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

7 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 217 draws against 21.7 expected, −0.84σ. Each draw is independent: after 39 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 7, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 217 draws · average wait 9.6 draws · longest completed wait 35 · waiting 39 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 7 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest18 · chance 18.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

No shared draws yet.

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 9 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st most popular of 10. 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 number 7 ×1.15

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-06-10	5	1st	7
2026-05-23	3	1st	7
2026-05-13	25	1st	7
2026-02-14	2	1st	7
2026-02-07	5	1st	7
2026-01-21	35	1st	7
2025-09-17	15	1st	7
2025-07-26	4	1st	7
2025-07-12	1	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: 7 is drawn with probability 1/10 tonight whatever it did last week.