NY Lotto Workbench: Patterns from the July 18, 2026 Draw
Grab a coffee — this is the long-form NY Lotto breakdown. We chart the frequencies, measure the droughts and trace the sum curve across the last 50 draws.
The result
Official NY Lotto result for July 18, 2026.
21 carried straight over from the previous drawing — repeat numbers strike again. Overdue watchers noticed: 45 showed for the first time in 26 draws. Meanwhile 13 keeps rolling — it's one of the hottest numbers of the current window.
Frequency map
First layer: appearance counts for the full number pool over the last 50 draws:
Current leaders: 15 (12×), 13 (9×), 31 (9×), 38 (9×), 10 (8×).
Shape of the draws
Zooming out, the recent draws share some clear structural tendencies:
Across the last 50 draws, the most common odd/even split was 3 odd out of 6 (seen in 30% of draws), with an average of 3 odd numbers per line. 2 of the numbers typically landed in the lower half (1–29). 42% of draws contained at least one consecutive pair, and 57% repeated at least one number from the draw before.
Appearances by play-slip section (rows of ten).
Appearances by last digit (·0 through ·9).
Sum trend
Is the board running high or low? The sum trend over recent draws:
Line totals have averaged 176 over the window, ranging from 98 to 277; the middle half of results landed between 157 and 195. Over the most recent 20 draws the total has been holding steady (regression slope -0.3 per draw around an average of 179).
Gap report
Finally, the gap report — which numbers have been missing longest, and which just ended a drought:
25 currently leads the absence table at 35 draws without an appearance, followed by 47 (33), 16 (23), 33 (23). On the other side, a neighbor effect showed up in 71% of recent draws — a number one above or below a previous hit appearing next time out.
Two reference sets
As a closing exercise, here are two study sets for the July 22, 2026 drawing — treat them as illustrations of the data, nothing more:
Illustrative only — every combination has the same chance in a random drawing.
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