Number 23

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 16 −1.11σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 31% for any number

13.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

44longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −1.11σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws · average wait 13.2 draws · longest completed wait 44 · waiting 12 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 smallest2 · chance 0.9
2nd smallest6 · chance 3.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 4.6
4th smallest2 · chance 2.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.5

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.

42 31 25 49 3 6

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 18 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
2026-08-31	3	2nd	6 23 28 34 37
2026-08-20	10	4th	3 10 13 23 49
2026-07-16	6	3rd	3 9 23 29 42
2026-06-25	44	2nd	8 23 24 40

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.