Number 4

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.16σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 29% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

21longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

4 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 4, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 101 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 9 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 4 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 smallest10 · chance 10.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 19 35 21 2 20

Never drawn alongside 3 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 4 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 42. 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 4 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	21	3rd	1 2 4 6 39 40
2026-07-04	9	1st	4 11 24 33 35 38
2026-06-03	9	2nd	1 4 11 16 21 35
2026-05-02	3	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: 4 is drawn with probability 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.