Number 18

In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 738 draws, 5 from 1–55.

69times drawn · chance expected 67 +0.24σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 83% for any number

10.7average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0

53longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 69 times in 738 draws against 67.1 expected, +0.24σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 69 times in 738 draws · average wait 10.7 draws · longest completed wait 53 · waiting 3 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 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 smallest15 · chance 14.4
2nd smallest28 · chance 28.8
3rd smallest19 · chance 19.8
4th smallest7 · chance 5.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 4 15 24 29 46

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 54 numbers; chance expected about 0.3 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 55. 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
2026-10-20	7	2nd	10 18 28 47 51
2026-10-13	4	3rd	15 16 18 24 28
2026-10-09	30	4th	2 12 15 18 40
2026-09-09	27	2nd	6 18 24

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 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-02-15	5	2nd	11 18 29 33 44
2026-02-10	4	1st	18 26 34 35 37
2026-02-06	19	1st	18 25 44 49 51
2026-01-18	8	3rd	8 17 18 19 33
2026-01-10	2	1st	18 34 43 50 52
2026-01-08	9	1st	18 25 29 31 46
2025-12-30	2	3rd	9 15 18 26 50
2025-12-28	5	3rd	1 9 18 45 46
2025-12-23	4	3rd	15 17 18 22 23
2025-12-18	6	1st	18 28 30 36 52
2025-12-12	19	2nd	2 18 24 29 49
2025-11-23	1	3rd	10 11 18 19 38
2025-11-22	18	2nd	4 18 28 29 50
2025-10-26	18	2nd	13 18 24 27 53
2025-10-05	5	1st	18 42 50 51 53
2025-09-30	1	1st	18 24 32 36 53
2025-09-29	6	2nd	8 18 22 34 46
2025-09-23	1	1st	18 20 21 31 54
2025-09-22	14	2nd	15 18 19 33 54
2025-09-08	38	2nd	5 18 26 28 33
2025-08-01	32	1st	18 30 33 34 35
2025-06-30	6	2nd	14 18 25 33 37
2025-06-24	20	2nd	15 18 40 48 54
2025-06-04	52	3rd	8 9 18 33 54
2025-04-13	4	3rd	14 15 18 28 30
2025-04-09	1	3rd	12 14 18 36 54
2025-04-08	16	3rd	2 7 18 42 50
2025-03-23	12	1st	18 24 38 46 53
2025-03-11	4	3rd	4 10 18 26 28
2025-03-07	8	2nd	9 18 25 49 55
2025-02-27	5	2nd	1 18 29 35 37
2025-02-22	33	2nd	7 18 33 44 49
2025-01-20	4	1st	18 21 30 46 48
2025-01-16	1	3rd	5 17 18 24 55
2025-01-15	31	1st	18 32 35 36 39
2024-12-15	3	2nd	4 18 21 33 50
2024-12-12	3	4th	7 8 10 18 48
2024-12-09	11	3rd	3 4 18 29 54
2024-11-28	1	1st	18 20 24 33 40
2024-11-27	17	2nd	1 18 20 43 45
2024-11-10	4	3rd	2 15 18 30 31
2024-11-06	2	2nd	4 18 19 41 52
2024-11-04	2	2nd	17 18 38 41 44
2024-11-02	31	2nd	14 18 36 51 54
2024-10-02	—	2nd	12 18 45 46 52