Number 24

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.64σ

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

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

23longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.2
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.7
4th smallest6 · chance 4.1
5th smallest3 · chance 2.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 10 26 38 2 5

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 45. 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
2026-10-04	7	4th	8 12 23 24 31 33
2026-08-16	23	4th	8 13 18 24 26 40
2026-03-08	8	5th	1 2 10 13 24 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: 24 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.