Number 18

In Revancha under the 5/35 · Apr 2022 – Jun 2025 rules — 479 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

79times drawn · chance expected 68 +1.38σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

25longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

18 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 479 draws against 68.4 expected, +1.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 18, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 479 draws · average wait 6.0 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 2 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest4 · chance 4.1
2nd smallest18 · chance 19.7
3rd smallest30 · chance 31.5
4th smallest24 · chance 19.7
5th smallest3 · chance 4.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 13 28 19 20 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 35. 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
2025-06-06	11	2nd	8 18 25 32 33
2025-05-12	2	4th	6 7 10 18 31
2025-05-07	4	3rd	6 14 18 19 26
2025-04-28	5	3rd	9 11

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 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-07-26	7	4th	7 12 17 18 27
2024-07-10	3	3rd	11 13 18 28 33
2024-07-03	13	2nd	2 18 28 29 33
2024-06-03	3	3rd	2 5 18 19 31
2024-05-27	6	4th	1 6 13 18 23
2024-05-13	3	4th	1 13 14 18 35
2024-05-06	14	3rd	8 14 18 23 32
2024-04-03	3	3rd	10 12 18 20 26
2024-03-25	5	4th	6 11 12 18 21
2024-03-13	7	3rd	13 15 18 28 35
2024-02-26	4	3rd	14 17 18 25 32
2024-02-16	5	4th	2 9 17 18 19
2024-02-05	13	2nd	5 18 30 34 35
2024-01-05	21	4th	1 4 12 18 20
2023-11-13	5	3rd	3 11 18 19 29
2023-11-01	4	1st	18 19 20 33 35
2023-10-23	5	4th	3 5 7 18 28
2023-10-11	1	3rd	11 14 18 24 33
2023-10-09	1	2nd	9 18 25 29 35
2023-10-06	1	5th	5 7 11 13 18
2023-10-04	13	3rd	12 16 18 30 32
2023-09-04	14	3rd	1 11 18 28 30
2023-08-02	2	4th	3 13 15 18 28
2023-07-28	3	3rd	4 16 18 28 33
2023-07-21	7	2nd	3 18 24 26 31
2023-07-05	2	2nd	7 18 22 28 34
2023-06-30	11	4th	2 4 12 18 24
2023-06-05	6	4th	1 2 8 18 21
2023-05-22	5	3rd	6 12 18 30 31
2023-05-10	9	3rd	7 17 18 28 31
2023-04-19	5	2nd	8 18 20 25 27
2023-04-05	2	3rd	4 13 18 20 32
2023-03-31	6	3rd	1 7 18 19 28
2023-03-17	1	4th	1 13 15 18 35
2023-03-15	2	4th	3 11 17 18 34
2023-03-10	25	3rd	3 12 18 32 33
2023-01-11	2	1st	18 19 22 24 33
2023-01-04	3	2nd	13 18 19 23 30
2022-12-23	2	2nd	9 18 20 27 28
2022-12-19	4	2nd	12 18 25 31 34
2022-12-09	5	3rd	5 8 18 23 31
2022-11-28	1	2nd	7 18 21 23 30
2022-11-25	5	3rd	3 15 18 19 21
2022-11-14	10	3rd	2 11 18 20 24
2022-10-21	2	3rd	3 13 18 23 35
2022-10-17	1	3rd	2 17 18 27 32
2022-10-14	20	3rd	7 15 18 23 25
2022-08-29	20	4th	1 4 10 18 19
2022-07-13	1	4th	3 10 13 18 30
2022-07-11	6	3rd	7 16 18 24 29
2022-06-24	3	2nd	3 18 20 23 24
2022-06-17	4	4th	5 7 9 18 20
2022-06-08	2	4th	3 12 14 18 19
2022-06-03	12	1st	18 24 28 34 35
2022-05-06	—	4th	10 12 17 18 20