Star 9

In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/12 · since Mar 2022 rules — 480 draws, 2 from 1–12.

76times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.49σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 83% for any number

6.2average wait between appearances · chance says 6.0

26longest completed wait · 55% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 480 draws against 80.0 expected, −0.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 480 draws · average wait 6.2 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 2 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 9 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 smallest13 · chance 20.7
2nd smallest63 · chance 55.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 5 1 2 4 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 11 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 12. 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-20	1	2nd	8 9
2026-10-16	19	2nd	1 9
2026-08-11	7	2nd	8 9
2026-07-17	6	2nd	2 9
2026-06-26	4	2nd	5 9
2026-06-12	16	1st	9 11
2026-04-17	15

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: 9 is drawn with probability 2/12 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-05-06	10	1st	9 10
2025-04-01	15	1st	9 12
2025-02-07	1	2nd	5 9
2025-02-04	3	2nd	3 9
2025-01-24	1	2nd	3 9
2025-01-21	4	2nd	4 9
2025-01-07	11	2nd	5 9
2024-11-29	6	2nd	5 9
2024-11-08	4	1st	9 12
2024-10-25	1	2nd	4 9
2024-10-22	14	2nd	3 9
2024-09-03	2	2nd	5 9
2024-08-27	6	2nd	2 9
2024-08-06	16	1st	9 10
2024-06-11	12	2nd	1 9
2024-04-30	26	2nd	8 9
2024-01-30	4	1st	9 11
2024-01-16	1	2nd	4 9
2024-01-12	9	2nd	6 9
2023-12-12	2	1st	9 12
2023-12-05	1	2nd	2 9
2023-12-01	4	2nd	1 9
2023-11-17	10	2nd	7 9
2023-10-13	2	2nd	2 9
2023-10-06	1	1st	9 11
2023-10-03	1	2nd	8 9
2023-09-29	7	2nd	3 9
2023-09-05	2	2nd	4 9
2023-08-29	6	2nd	6 9
2023-08-08	5	2nd	6 9
2023-07-21	4	2nd	5 9
2023-07-07	3	2nd	3 9
2023-06-27	22	2nd	5 9
2023-04-11	5	2nd	7 9
2023-03-24	7	2nd	3 9
2023-02-28	10	2nd	3 9
2023-01-24	1	2nd	1 9
2023-01-20	2	1st	9 10
2023-01-13	15	2nd	4 9
2022-11-22	2	1st	9 11
2022-11-15	2	1st	9 12
2022-11-08	9	2nd	4 9
2022-10-07	6	2nd	3 9
2022-09-16	2	2nd	3 9
2022-09-09	1	2nd	4 9
2022-09-06	2	2nd	3 9
2022-08-30	4	2nd	7 9
2022-08-16	8	2nd	4 9
2022-07-19	9	1st	9 10
2022-06-17	4	2nd	1 9
2022-06-03	11	2nd	1 9
2022-04-26	—	2nd	1 9