Number 20

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–49.

8times drawn · chance expected 16 −2.13σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

17.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

30longest completed wait · 27% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, −2.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 158 draws · average wait 17.6 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 13 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 20 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 smallest1 · chance 1.0
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.9
4th smallest2 · chance 1.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 11 17 21 27 30

Never drawn alongside 24 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 25 such strangers 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 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
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
2026-08-24	30	3rd	12 18 20 30 37
2026-05-11	9	3rd	17 19 20 30 31
2026-04-09	10	2nd	11 20 35 41 45
2026-03-05	24	2nd	1 20 21

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.