Number 20

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

7times drawn · chance expected 10 −0.85σ

24draws waiting · a wait this long: 12% for any number

10.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

32longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, −0.85σ. Each draw is independent: after 24 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 107 draws · average wait 10.8 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 24 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 smallest4 · chance 1.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 3.0
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 33 36 2 10 14

Never drawn alongside 26 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 27 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
2026-04-25	6	1st	20 21 33 36
2026-03-14	7	3rd	2 19 20 44
2026-01-24	4	3rd	10 14 20 41
2025-12-27	10	1st	20 28 31 39

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.