Number 20

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

6times drawn · chance expected 11 −1.67σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

13.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

26longest completed wait · 18% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −1.67σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 5 times, counted separately.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 92 draws · average wait 13.4 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 6 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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest3 · chance 1.6
3rd smallest3 · chance 2.2
4th smallest0 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 26 27 31 36 40

Never drawn alongside 26 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 26 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
2026-09-19	12	3rd	1 15 20 23 36 40
2026-08-08	3	3rd	11 19 20 26 31 46
2026-07-29	15	2nd	11 20 27 28 32 42
2026-06-06	26	2nd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.