Number 23

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 97 draws, 6 from 1–49.

7times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.51σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

11.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 37% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 97 draws against 11.9 expected, −1.51σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 97 draws · average wait 11.5 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 11 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 23 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 0.3
2nd smallest3 · chance 1.3
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.5
4th smallest1 · chance 2.0
5th smallest0 · 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 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 36 1 10 29 33

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 23 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	14	4th	1 15 20 23 36 40
2026-08-01	4	3rd	3 10 23 24 25 33
2026-07-18	17	2nd	14 23 29 31 33 46
2026-05-20	9	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: 23 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.