Number 20

In Western Max under the 7/50 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 7 from 1–50.

13times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.75σ

31draws waiting · a wait this long: 1% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

33longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 31 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 31 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 0.6
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.4
4th smallest5 · chance 3.7
5th smallest3 · chance 1.6
6th smallest0 · chance 0.3
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

3 26 28 45 7 10

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 49 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 50. 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
2026-06-23	20	3rd	7 14 20 22 31 39 41
2026-04-14	3	5th	7 10 12 13 20 26 45
2026-04-03	13	3rd	11 14 20 27 29 31

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.