Number 9

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

86times drawn · chance expected 88 −0.21σ

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

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

36longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

9 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −0.21σ. 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 86 times in 720 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 36 · 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 smallest37 · chance 33.8
2nd smallest36 · chance 37.3
3rd smallest12 · chance 13.1
4th smallest1 · chance 1.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 16 29 30 31 22

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, 9 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
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
2023-10-16	6	3rd	4 6 9 16 18
2023-10-10	12	2nd	8 9 29 40 41
2023-09-28	4	1st	9 10 12 14 27
2023-09-24	11	2nd	2 9 22

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-03-02	9	1st	9 12 16 30 31
2023-02-21	6	2nd	3 9 10 31 39
2023-02-15	9	1st	9 11 15 19 32
2023-02-06	2	2nd	2 9 21 27 31
2023-02-04	16	3rd	2 4 9 20 28
2023-01-19	4	1st	9 10 24 30 39
2023-01-15	8	1st	9 11 15 26 35
2023-01-07	3	1st	9 28 32 33 34
2023-01-04	15	1st	9 26 29 33 34
2021-12-20	5	2nd	7 9 10 27 30
2021-12-15	4	2nd	2 9 10 15 21
2021-12-11	12	1st	9 23 32 38 40
2021-11-29	1	2nd	1 9 11 16 31
2021-11-28	1	1st	9 13 24 34 35
2021-11-27	13	2nd	3 9 11 27 34
2021-11-14	29	2nd	7 9 23 30 41
2021-10-16	6	3rd	4 5 9 25 41
2021-10-10	7	2nd	7 9 22 24 32
2021-10-03	14	2nd	6 9 25 26 39
2021-09-19	1	3rd	2 5 9 12 24
2021-09-18	6	1st	9 11 13 14 34
2021-09-12	6	1st	9 27 29 31 39
2021-09-06	4	2nd	8 9 30 33 38
2021-09-02	15	2nd	8 9 20 36 41
2021-08-18	3	3rd	3 7 9 12 33
2021-08-15	9	1st	9 16 30 37 38
2021-08-06	8	1st	9 16 21 24 34
2021-07-29	2	2nd	2 9 14 20 27
2021-07-27	3	1st	9 22 31 32 40
2021-07-24	8	4th	1 3 8 9 32
2021-07-16	7	3rd	1 2 9 16 29
2021-07-09	1	2nd	8 9 24 35 39
2021-07-08	2	1st	9 12 16 18 39
2021-07-06	7	2nd	1 9 12 23 32
2021-06-29	3	2nd	5 9 10 35 36
2021-06-26	17	1st	9 13 22 39 40
2021-06-09	10	1st	9 22 23 25 29
2021-05-30	1	3rd	1 2 9 22 27
2021-05-29	13	1st	9 11 18 22 25
2021-05-16	10	2nd	5 9 18 27 30
2021-05-06	11	1st	9 12 17 24 29
2021-04-25	18	1st	9 20 23 25 32
2021-04-07	3	2nd	2 9 15 19 21
2021-04-04	2	2nd	2 9 18 21 23
2021-04-02	8	2nd	4 9 24 32 35
2021-03-25	6	1st	9 12 16 25 29
2021-03-19	4	1st	9 10 20 22 24
2021-03-15	4	1st	9 11 25 36 41
2021-03-11	1	3rd	1 2 9 34 40
2021-03-10	17	1st	9 10 17 18 22
2021-02-21	14	1st	9 19 29 35 37
2021-02-07	14	3rd	2 7 9 21 38
2021-01-24	19	1st	9 16 20 24 39
2021-01-05	2	1st	9 15 29 32 39
2021-01-03	5	1st	9 21 30 31 41
2020-12-29	5	2nd	5 9 16 33 34
2020-12-24	3	2nd	8 9 27 29 41
2020-12-21	3	1st	9 18 19 30 40
2020-12-18	8	1st	9 12 14 33 39
2020-12-10	31	1st	9 26 37 40 41
2020-11-09	3	2nd	2 9 10 28 33
2020-11-06	—	2nd	1 9 13 30 31