Number 24

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.44σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

32longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.44σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 1 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest2 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.7
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.4
4th smallest5 · chance 5.0
5th smallest0 · chance 2.1
6th smallest1 · chance 0.3

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.

14 20 31 9 17 28

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	4	3rd	5 14 24 32 37 44
2026-09-23	3	1st	24 31 33 34 47 48
2026-09-12	15	4th	10 17 20 24 26 31
2026-07-22	6	4th	9

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.