Number 20

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/46 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 rules — 120 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

14times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.19σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 32% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 120 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 28 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 1.0
2nd smallest5 · chance 3.7
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.1
4th smallest2 · chance 3.2
5th smallest2 · chance 0.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 35 46 7 8 17

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 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
2025-11-22	1	2nd	8 20 28 42 46 48
2025-11-19	12	2nd	4 20 25 29 35 45
2025-10-04	12	4th	3 14 17 20 28 46

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.