Number 20

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

15times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.70σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

8.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

25longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.70σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 8.9 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 13 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 1.0
2nd smallest2 · chance 4.0
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.5
4th smallest7 · chance 3.4
5th smallest1 · chance 1.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 3 9 13 14 18

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 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
2026-08-26	4	4th	3 14 16 20 36 46
2026-08-12	25	3rd	11 16 20 36 42 46
2026-05-16	2	2nd	5 20 21 23 26 47
2026-05-09	5	4th

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.