Star 9

In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/10 · Oct 2014 – Mar 2022 rules — 389 draws, 2 from 1–10 (an earlier era).

89times drawn · chance expected 78 +1.42σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

4.3average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

15longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 89 times in 389 draws against 77.8 expected, +1.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 89 times in 389 draws · average wait 4.3 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 1 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 smallest10 · chance 9.9
2nd smallest79 · chance 79.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 5 7 8 4 6

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 9 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 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
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
2022-03-11	1	2nd	8 9
2022-03-04	4	2nd	6 9
2022-02-04	1	1st	9 10
2022-01-28	5	2nd	7 9
2021-12-24	10	2nd	8 9
2021-10-15	12	2nd	6 9
2021-07-23

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 2/10 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-01-24	2	2nd	7 9
2020-01-10	5	2nd	4 9
2019-12-06	7	2nd	1 9
2019-10-18	1	2nd	6 9
2019-10-11	4	2nd	4 9
2019-09-13	5	2nd	2 9
2019-08-09	1	1st	9 10
2019-08-02	2	1st	9 10
2019-07-19	1	2nd	7 9
2019-07-12	5	2nd	7 9
2019-06-07	3	2nd	5 9
2019-05-17	6	2nd	5 9
2019-04-05	1	2nd	1 9
2019-03-29	1	2nd	8 9
2019-03-22	5	2nd	7 9
2019-02-15	4	2nd	7 9
2019-01-18	1	2nd	2 9
2019-01-11	4	2nd	4 9
2018-12-14	6	1st	9 10
2018-11-02	3	1st	9 10
2018-10-12	4	2nd	2 9
2018-09-14	3	2nd	5 9
2018-08-24	5	2nd	6 9
2018-07-20	6	2nd	7 9
2018-06-08	6	1st	9 10
2018-04-27	10	1st	9 10
2018-02-16	4	1st	9 10
2018-01-19	1	2nd	4 9
2018-01-12	9	2nd	2 9
2017-11-10	11	2nd	8 9
2017-08-25	6	2nd	5 9
2017-07-14	1	2nd	8 9
2017-07-07	6	2nd	6 9
2017-05-26	9	2nd	1 9
2017-03-24	8	2nd	3 9
2017-01-27	4	2nd	7 9
2016-12-30	10	2nd	1 9
2016-10-21	2	2nd	3 9
2016-10-07	6	2nd	6 9
2016-08-26	6	2nd	5 9
2016-07-15	6	2nd	2 9
2016-06-03	1	2nd	6 9
2016-05-27	11	2nd	5 9
2016-03-11	6	2nd	3 9
2016-01-29	1	2nd	4 9
2016-01-22	1	2nd	4 9
2016-01-15	3	2nd	1 9
2015-12-25	1	2nd	3 9
2015-12-18	4	2nd	5 9
2015-11-20	2	2nd	5 9
2015-11-06	3	2nd	3 9
2015-10-16	1	2nd	3 9
2015-10-09	7	2nd	3 9
2015-08-21	7	2nd	3 9
2015-07-03	7	2nd	5 9
2015-05-15	1	1st	9 10
2015-05-08	2	2nd	8 9
2015-04-24	4	2nd	3 9
2015-03-27	6	2nd	3 9
2015-02-13	5	2nd	6 9
2015-01-09	3	2nd	5 9
2014-12-19	1	2nd	5 9
2014-12-12	1	2nd	7 9
2014-12-05	1	2nd	4 9
2014-11-28	—	2nd	6 9