Number 24

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

18times drawn · chance expected 16 +0.49σ

19draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

7.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

23longest completed wait · 81% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, +0.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 19 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 158 draws · average wait 7.8 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 19 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 smallest2 · chance 1.2
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest5 · chance 7.0
4th smallest2 · chance 4.1
5th smallest2 · chance 0.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 38 44 45 4 8

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 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
2026-08-03	6	3rd	6 11 24 44 45
2026-07-13	1	2nd	5 24 32 37 46
2026-07-09	4	5th	7 8 14 16 24
2026-06-25	14	3rd	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: 24 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.