Number 20

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.36σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

26longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 8 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 1.6
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.6
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.6
4th smallest1 · chance 1.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 8 16 38 5 7

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 16 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
2026-10-04	10	3rd	15 17 20 24 32
2026-09-24	6	3rd	8 17 20 25 32
2026-09-18	13	1st	20 26 32 44 47
2026-09-05	26	3rd	5 8

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.