Number 6

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018 rules — 897 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

104times drawn · chance expected 109 −0.55σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

39longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 104 times in 897 draws against 109.4 expected, −0.55σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 104 times in 897 draws · average wait 8.7 draws · longest completed wait 39 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest54 · chance 59.6
2nd smallest40 · chance 37.2
3rd smallest9 · chance 6.8
4th smallest1 · chance 0.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 3 28 13 9 26

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 41. 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
2018-11-03	28	2nd	1 6 25 26 34
2018-10-06	4	1st	6 14 22 33 39
2018-10-02	15	2nd	5 6 7 10 30
2018-09-17	1	2nd	1 6 34

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2018-03-14	3	1st	6 11 12 20 26
2018-03-11	2	1st	6 7 20 33 39
2018-03-09	24	1st	6 16 26 27 30
2018-02-13	6	1st	6 9 17 33 35
2018-02-07	1	1st	6 13 17 22 26
2018-02-06	2	1st	6 7 13 26 39
2018-02-04	4	2nd	2 6 28 29 33
2018-01-31	3	1st	6 9 28 31 40
2018-01-28	8	1st	6 7 19 20 36
2018-01-20	6	3rd	3 5 6 13 41
2018-01-14	4	2nd	2 6 13 32 41
2018-01-10	18	1st	6 13 28 31 33
2017-12-23	1	2nd	1 6 23 29 33
2017-12-22	12	1st	6 9 23 37 40
2017-12-10	1	2nd	1 6 8 13 27
2017-12-09	2	1st	6 10 16 36 41
2017-12-07	4	1st	6 15 24 25 27
2017-12-03	4	3rd	2 4 6 8 32
2017-11-29	5	1st	6 9 11 27 29
2017-11-24	5	2nd	5 6 10 20 40
2017-11-19	10	1st	6 9 24 34 35
2017-11-09	4	1st	6 21 24 26 33
2017-11-05	4	1st	6 18 23 30 33
2017-11-01	14	2nd	3 6 20 23 30
2017-10-17	2	1st	6 9 17 26 37
2017-10-15	4	1st	6 20 21 23 38
2017-10-11	16	3rd	1 4 6 13 21
2017-09-24	7	1st	6 10 23 27 28
2017-09-17	5	2nd	1 6 10 22 33
2017-09-12	1	1st	6 7 30 34 40
2017-09-11	3	2nd	3 6 22 23 26
2017-09-08	28	2nd	3 6 12 20 37
2017-08-11	1	2nd	4 6 10 24 41
2017-08-10	10	2nd	4 6 9 16 22
2017-07-31	17	1st	6 13 20 31 33
2017-07-14	9	1st	6 10 26 27 32
2017-07-05	39	1st	6 8 13 28 39
2017-05-27	3	2nd	3 6 16 24 28
2017-05-24	2	1st	6 21 23 30 32
2017-05-22	17	2nd	1 6 9 28 30
2017-05-05	7	1st	6 14 16 18 20
2017-04-28	4	2nd	3 6 10 27 38
2017-04-24	10	1st	6 7 21 30 33
2017-04-14	2	1st	6 11 14 17 28
2017-04-12	19	2nd	4 6 7 8 25
2017-03-22	19	1st	6 11 15 21 37
2017-03-03	4	1st	6 14 27 35 36
2017-02-27	14	2nd	3 6 14 19 32
2017-02-13	11	1st	6 13 21 28 29
2017-02-02	6	3rd	3 5 6 33 40
2017-01-27	5	1st	6 8 32 33 40
2017-01-22	6	4th	1 3 4 6 23
2017-01-16	11	2nd	5 6 8 37 40
2017-01-05	12	2nd	5 6 7 13 28
2016-12-24	7	1st	6 16 17 22 27
2016-12-17	1	3rd	2 3 6 18 28
2016-12-16	8	2nd	3 6 20 22 26
2016-12-08	3	1st	6 13 19 33 39
2016-12-05	7	2nd	5 6 13 15 28
2016-11-28	23	1st	6 10 19 23 30
2016-11-05	14	2nd	1 6 19 38 41
2016-10-22	3	1st	6 11 22 37 38
2016-10-19	7	1st	6 11 26 27 40
2016-10-12	3	2nd	1 6 11 12 14
2016-10-09	2	2nd	3 6 9 17 28
2016-10-07	6	1st	6 10 14 17 37
2016-10-01	25	2nd	2 6 14 31 38
2016-09-06	15	2nd	5 6 7 14 30
2016-08-22	7	1st	6 10 11 20 40
2016-08-15	2	1st	6 9 19 26 28
2016-08-13	2	2nd	3 6 23 34 38
2016-08-11	4	2nd	5 6 20 33 41
2016-08-07	6	1st	6 19 24 25 37
2016-08-01	1	2nd	1 6 7 21 28
2016-07-31	7	3rd	4 5 6 18 39
2016-07-24	2	1st	6 8 9 19 35
2016-07-22	10	3rd	1 3 6 12 15
2016-07-12	31	2nd	4 6 8 26 40
2016-06-11	25	2nd	4 6 8 17 29
2016-05-17	—	1st	6 7 10 31 41