Number 9

In Texas Two Step under the 5/35 · Feb 2022 – Nov 2022 rules — 75 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

11times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.09σ

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

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

21longest completed wait · 37% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 75 draws against 10.7 expected, +0.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 9, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 75 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 9 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 smallest2 · chance 3.5
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 1 4 27 33 11

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 9 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2022-11-17	3	2nd	4 9 15 16 18
2022-11-07	21	2nd	4 9 11 13 30
2022-08-15	0	2nd	1 9 13 27
2022-08-15	2	2nd	1 9

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: 9 is drawn with probability 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.