Number 23

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

8times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.41σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

9longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 52 draws · average wait 5.0 draws · longest completed wait 9 · waiting 2 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 0.2
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.2
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.4
4th smallest2 · chance 2.5
5th smallest1 · chance 1.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.3
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 25 10 43 2 28

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 52. 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
2026-10-02	1	4th	2 4 20 23 25 41 47
2026-09-29	4	5th	6 10 13 22 23 43 49
2026-09-15	6	2nd	2 23 30 38 40 44 49

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.