Number 20

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

9times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.50σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

20longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −1.50σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 6 times, counted separately.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 4 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 0.4
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.0
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.3
4th smallest0 · chance 2.4
5th smallest2 · chance 0.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

27 2 11 14 15 26

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 44 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 45. 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
2026-09-12	1	2nd	11 20 30 32 33 34
2026-09-05	6	3rd	3 6 20 25 26 32
2026-07-25	12	3rd	4 18 20 22 27 28
2026-05-02	2	3rd

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.