Number 23

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.36σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 31% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

36longest completed wait · 11% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 10 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 23 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 smallest0 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.3
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.2
4th smallest4 · chance 3.5
5th smallest3 · chance 1.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

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.

8 29 4 18 19 22

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-05	1	5th	3 4 16 21 23 26
2026-09-02	3	3rd	8 11 23 29 35 49
2026-08-22	4	3rd	2 22 23 29 30 41
2026-08-08	5	5th

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: 23 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.