Number 6

In SuperEnalotto under the 6/90 + 1/90 · Dec 1997 – Jul 2009 rules — 1,425 draws, 6 from 1–90 (an earlier era).

98times drawn · chance expected 95 +0.32σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 71% for any number

14.4average wait between appearances · chance says 15.0

63longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 98 times in 1,425 draws against 95.0 expected, +0.32σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 10 times, counted separately.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 98 times in 1,425 draws · average wait 14.4 draws · longest completed wait 63 · 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 6 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 smallest70 · chance 72.9
2nd smallest26 · chance 22.8
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

83 80 3 28 34 42

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 89 numbers; chance expected about 0.4 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 6 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 90. 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 6 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2009-06-16	9	1st	6 14 39 47 63 82
2009-05-26	19	1st	6 33 35 64 66 77
2009-04-11	18	1st	6 34 59 61 83 90

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: 6 is drawn with probability 6/90 tonight whatever it did last week.

2007-03-03	2	1st	6 32 50 57 59 61
2007-02-27	14	1st	6 20 58 59 65 88
2007-01-25	6	2nd	4 6 26 28 53 64
2007-01-11	27	1st	6 27 59 71 85 90
2006-11-09	13	2nd	5 6 28 61 77 87
2006-10-10	6	1st	6 13 34 52 63 83
2006-09-26	3	1st	6 9 10 20 60 83
2006-09-19	13	2nd	4 6 8 14 21 28
2006-08-19	4	1st	6 59 77 81 82 88
2006-08-10	24	1st	6 9 42 48 81 87
2006-06-15	47	1st	6 27 39 43 62 84
2006-02-25	4	2nd	3 6 44 60 84 86
2006-02-16	27	2nd	5 6 18 34 42 72
2005-12-15	20	1st	6 26 42 51 60 79
2005-10-29	52	2nd	3 6 21 24 37 48
2005-06-30	1	1st	6 27 42 49 82 86
2005-06-28	5	1st	6 8 49 60 72 74
2005-06-15	2	1st	6 57 58 66 76 80
2005-06-08	7	1st	6 8 28 29 32 73
2005-05-14	2	1st	6 16 44 45 89 90
2005-05-07	11	1st	6 11 21 30 58 63
2005-03-30	12	1st	6 55 61 65 78 89
2005-02-16	20	1st	6 8 18 51 80 89
2004-12-09	34	1st	6 8 15 18 33 75
2004-08-11	37	1st	6 42 43 46 53 70
2004-04-03	22	1st	6 7 13 35 56 87
2004-01-17	11	2nd	4 6 19 40 60 79
2003-12-10	31	1st	6 37 62 73 79 90
2003-08-23	20	1st	6 42 68 70 75 87
2003-06-14	12	1st	6 25 46 59 71 83
2003-05-03	35	2nd	2 6 12 17 19 63
2003-01-02	4	1st	6 18 34 43 58 80
2002-12-24	7	3rd	1 3 6 42 81 83
2002-12-07	63	1st	6 17 23 55 56 68
2002-05-04	17	2nd	1 6 60 61 69 86
2002-03-06	5	2nd	5 6 32 61 67 85
2002-02-16	5	1st	6 36 37 59 61 62
2002-01-30	20	2nd	3 6 34 49 79 83
2001-11-24	28	1st	6 7 16 51 62 83
2001-08-18	26	1st	6 7 14 53 54 85
2001-05-19	25	1st	6 36 52 68 80 81
2001-02-21	7	1st	6 28 46 55 56 62
2001-01-27	16	2nd	2 6 18 20 49 83
2000-12-02	10	1st	6 11 17 18 20 59
2000-10-28	14	1st	6 21 29 43 80 89
2000-09-09	15	2nd	3 6 10 26 43 72
2000-07-19	3	1st	6 37 53 60 66 72
2000-07-08	10	2nd	4 6 8 41 76 80
2000-06-03	19	1st	6 17 31 33 43 66
2000-03-29	14	2nd	1 6 12 26 57 70
2000-02-09	9	1st	6 36 49 51 52 76
2000-01-08	5	1st	6 15 47 71 75 86
1999-12-22	3	1st	6 9 32 47 59 60
1999-12-11	7	1st	6 27 50 57 77 80
1999-11-17	3	1st	6 51 73 78 80 81
1999-11-06	3	1st	6 7 37 67 80 87
1999-10-27	4	1st	6 25 34 72 76 82
1999-10-13	3	1st	6 24 30 34 37 71
1999-10-02	2	1st	6 10 38 48 49 65
1999-09-25	24	1st	6 27 37 38 47 79
1999-07-03	22	2nd	3 6 7 53 65 90
1999-04-17	10	2nd	4 6 25 32 73 83
1999-03-13	4	1st	6 18 20 34 72 90
1999-02-27	14	1st	6 7 42 55 75 88
1999-01-09	6	2nd	1 6 13 23 53 77
1998-12-19	10	2nd	3 6 13 28 49 50
1998-11-14	3	1st	6 31 69 70 76 85
1998-11-04	8	1st	6 54 72 75 81 87
1998-10-07	14	1st	6 13 17 49 51 83
1998-08-19	28	1st	6 15 16 50 62 82
1998-05-13	3	1st	6 15 41 57 81 83
1998-05-02	11	1st	6 12 23 28 77 79
1998-03-25	15	2nd	5 6 17 55 62 73
1998-01-31	—	1st	6 13 26 33 34 78