Number 24

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

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.21σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 32% for any number

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

15longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.21σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 9 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.3
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.6
4th smallest6 · chance 5.1
5th smallest4 · chance 2.6
6th smallest1 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 7 15 21 3 19

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-08	4	4th	2 10 15 24 28 37
2026-07-11	3	4th	10 18 19 24 25 43
2026-06-20	8	5th	2 6 8 15 24 34
2026-04-25	13	5th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.