Number 6

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 550 draws, 5 from 1–38.

79times drawn · chance expected 72 +0.84σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

30longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

6 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 550 draws against 72.4 expected, +0.84σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 19 times, counted separately.

Number 6, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 550 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 1 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 smallest45 · chance 43.0
2nd smallest26 · chance 29.7
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.9
4th smallest0 · 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 8.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 7 9 15 24 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 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 38. 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
2026-10-21	1	1st	6 7 21 26 32
2026-10-20	8	1st	6 8 24 27 36
2026-10-12	5	2nd	1 6 9 10 27
2026-10-07	21	1st	6 7 14

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-27	5	1st	6 12 20 24 27
2026-04-22	3	3rd	3 4 6 14 26
2026-04-19	8	2nd	3 6 10 12 30
2026-04-11	1	2nd	1 6 19 25 31
2026-04-10	8	2nd	1 6 20 30 35
2026-04-02	4	1st	6 11 25 29 31
2026-03-29	13	1st	6 19 21 31 37
2026-03-16	1	1st	6 12 15 23 38
2026-03-15	1	2nd	2 6 10 34 37
2026-03-14	25	1st	6 16 22 26 36
2026-02-17	6	1st	6 9 11 22 32
2026-02-11	10	1st	6 7 23 29 34
2026-02-01	5	1st	6 20 27 31 37
2026-01-27	13	2nd	4 6 12 24 32
2026-01-14	1	2nd	5 6 9 20 21
2026-01-13	12	3rd	3 4 6 21 34
2026-01-01	1	1st	6 15 27 35 38
2025-12-31	5	2nd	2 6 34 35 36
2025-12-26	6	1st	6 10 22 23 24
2025-12-20	7	1st	6 9 13 14 32
2025-12-13	6	2nd	5 6 7 25 33
2025-12-07	4	2nd	5 6 7 8 32
2025-12-03	16	2nd	1 6 7 10 27
2025-11-17	10	1st	6 19 24 26 36
2025-11-07	1	1st	6 9 24 25 31
2025-11-06	1	1st	6 8 15 21 36
2025-11-05	4	2nd	2 6 9 23 27
2025-11-01	1	1st	6 14 15 17 20
2025-10-31	7	2nd	2 6 15 30 31
2025-10-24	30	2nd	1 6 11 23 33
2025-09-24	9	3rd	1 4 6 15 28
2025-09-15	9	1st	6 7 17 32 33
2025-09-06	2	1st	6 11 17 18 34
2025-09-04	10	2nd	2 6 7 10 38
2025-08-25	7	2nd	4 6 8 22 30
2025-08-18	2	1st	6 17 19 22 24
2025-08-16	3	2nd	3 6 8 18 35
2025-08-13	6	2nd	5 6 7 8 36
2025-08-07	18	2nd	4 6 20 22 28
2025-07-20	4	3rd	1 4 6 24 31
2025-07-16	1	1st	6 13 18 19 36
2025-07-15	3	1st	6 8 10 18 32
2025-07-12	21	1st	6 8 15 21 37
2025-06-21	2	1st	6 9 10 16 29
2025-06-19	5	1st	6 13 24 31 34
2025-06-14	18	2nd	1 6 25 29 38
2025-05-27	2	2nd	3 6 24 33 38
2025-05-25	3	1st	6 29 32 36 38
2025-05-22	3	2nd	1 6 18 37 38
2025-05-19	2	1st	6 8 13 28 32
2025-05-17	1	1st	6 8 9 27 38
2025-05-16	18	1st	6 9 15 19 27
2025-04-28	5	1st	6 7 22 27 29
2025-04-23	2	1st	6 23 31 34 38
2025-04-21	—	3rd	1 5 6 19 37