Number 23

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

17times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.19σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 145 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 5 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 0.7
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.3
3rd smallest4 · chance 6.0
4th smallest7 · chance 5.0
5th smallest1 · chance 1.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 39 44 1 4 5

Never drawn alongside 3 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 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
2026-09-23	1	3rd	2 4 23 31 42 44
2026-09-19	22	2nd	5 23 30 37 39 40
2026-07-04	4	2nd	15 23 26 30 35 38
2026-06-20	10	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.