Number 24

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

10times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.95σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 35% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 45% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 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 24, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 9 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 24 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 0.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.7
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.4
4th smallest3 · chance 3.1
5th smallest1 · 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 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 11 40 10 36 39

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 24 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-09	8	3rd	14 15 24 40 41 43
2026-08-12	11	4th	2 11 19 24 30 33
2026-07-04	3	3rd	2 22 24 26 36 40
2026-06-24	7	3rd

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