Number 20

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 443 draws, 7 from 1–35.

92times drawn · chance expected 89 +0.40σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

4.8average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

25longest completed wait · 35% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 92 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, +0.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 92 times in 443 draws · average wait 4.8 draws · longest completed wait 25 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 20 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 smallest1 · chance 0.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.9
3rd smallest15 · chance 16.0
4th smallest28 · chance 30.2
5th smallest23 · chance 27.8
6th smallest16 · chance 11.9
7th smallest5 · chance 1.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 16.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 22 10 6 12 11

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, 20 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 20 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	10	7th	7 8 10 12 15 19 20
2026-07-30	6	2nd	18 20 22 26 31 34 35
2026-06-18	11	3rd	1 6 20 21 26 28 29

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: 20 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-04-25	2	3rd	3 17 20 28 29 32 34
2024-04-11	1	3rd	4 6 20 21 24 25 30
2024-04-04	4	5th	1 7 10 19 20 25 31
2024-03-07	4	5th	2 4 6 8 20 24 30
2024-02-08	3	5th	6 7 12 16 20 25 26
2024-01-18	4	2nd	17 20 21 22 24 31 34
2023-12-21	10	3rd	13 14 20 22 25 34 35
2023-10-12	3	4th	1 6 10 20 21 31 35
2023-09-21	2	6th	4 10 12 13 18 20 23
2023-09-07	2	4th	11 14 18 20 24 27 29
2023-08-24	7	6th	3 8 11 17 18 20 33
2023-07-06	3	6th	7 10 12 16 17 20 28
2023-06-15	1	5th	2 9 11 13 20 25 31
2023-06-08	2	4th	12 15 17 20 21 22 28
2023-05-25	1	4th	8 12 17 20 27 29 30
2023-05-18	2	6th	3 6 7 11 19 20 33
2023-05-04	8	4th	2 13 18 20 31 34 35
2023-03-09	3	4th	7 10 17 20 27 30 33
2023-02-16	20	5th	5 8 12 13 20 21 35
2022-09-29	6	6th	9 12 15 16 19 20 35
2022-08-18	5	4th	1 2 4 20 22 23 27
2022-07-14	5	4th	1 6 17 20 26 33 35
2022-06-09	8	5th	2 3 6 13 20 23 34
2022-04-14	14	6th	2 3 5 11 14 20 31
2022-01-06	2	3rd	5 15 20 27 28 29 34
2021-12-23	6	5th	3 10 13 16 20 29 33
2021-11-11	4	7th	1 2 3 4 15 17 20
2021-10-14	5	3rd	12 17 20 22 23 27 32
2021-09-09	7	6th	2 3 6 8 17 20 23
2021-07-22	3	4th	13 15 16 20 25 28 29
2021-07-01	2	7th	11 13 16 17 18 19 20
2021-06-17	16	5th	4 10 12 13 20 26 34
2021-02-25	2	4th	11 17 19 20 23 25 33
2021-02-11	2	4th	1 7 16 20 26 29 32
2021-01-28	2	6th	6 10 12 13 16 20 30
2021-01-14	1	4th	1 2 17 20 26 27 31
2021-01-07	4	5th	2 3 7 17 20 22 23
2020-12-10	2	7th	4 8 9 11 14 19 20
2020-11-26	7	3rd	3 7 20 21 25 30 31
2020-10-08	15	6th	9 10 11 17 19 20 35
2020-06-25	3	4th	8 12 18 20 24 27 35
2020-06-04	11	6th	1 5 10 12 17 20 27
2020-03-19	1	6th	1 10 11 12 18 20 27
2020-03-12	6	4th	10 17 19 20 26 28 33
2020-01-30	2	5th	5 8 9 17 20 22 35
2020-01-16	6	4th	7 14 16 20 21 25 28
2019-12-05	1	3rd	14 19 20 27 29 30 32
2019-11-28	2	4th	4 12 18 20 21 23 30
2019-11-14	6	3rd	8 10 20 24 26 28 32
2019-10-03	3	4th	2 11 15 20 22 25 29
2019-09-12	2	3rd	10 11 20 27 28 30 31
2019-08-29	8	4th	8 9 11 20 22 27 32
2019-07-04	6	3rd	2 15 20 21 22 27 28
2019-05-23	6	6th	6 7 10 16 17 20 30
2019-04-11	3	5th	8 15 18 19 20 22 32
2019-03-21	1	3rd	3 14 20 27 29 30 31
2019-03-14	1	5th	2 5 8 17 20 24 27
2019-03-07	4	5th	4 6 9 13 20 23 27
2019-02-07	3	4th	6 11 17 20 22 24 32
2019-01-17	4	4th	4 11 18 20 22 26 33
2018-12-20	2	5th	5 9 13 19 20 24 32
2018-12-06	1	5th	3 5 6 14 20 26 33
2018-11-29	7	4th	3 5 17 20 22 29 33
2018-10-11	3	2nd	13 20 21 23 27 30 32
2018-09-20	3	6th	2 6 8 10 17 20 30
2018-08-30	8	4th	13 15 19 20 22 28 32
2018-07-05	9	2nd	7 20 23 29 32 33 34
2018-05-03	—	6th	1 3 6 16 19 20 24