Number 20

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 866 draws, 5 from 1–54.

74times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.73σ

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

11.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

46longest completed wait · 60% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 74 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, −0.73σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 74 times in 866 draws · average wait 11.5 draws · longest completed wait 46 · 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 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 smallest14 · chance 11.7
2nd smallest26 · chance 28.7
3rd smallest21 · chance 24.2
4th smallest12 · chance 8.3
5th smallest1 · chance 1.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 19 37 8 9 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet 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 54. 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
2026-10-04	6	3rd	2 3 20 41 47
2026-08-23	34	3rd	2 9 20 41 48
2025-12-28	1	3rd	11 19 20 36 38
2025-12-21	11	2nd	13 20

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 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-03-01	1	4th	3 8 10 20 26
2020-02-23	18	3rd	7 18 20 47 50
2019-10-20	15	1st	20 25 32 41 53
2019-07-07	7	1st	20 23 24 34 41
2019-05-19	2	2nd	19 20 24 37 45
2019-05-05	7	4th	8 12 18 20 26
2019-03-17	7	2nd	19 20 34 36 37
2019-01-27	8	2nd	11 20 35 51 53
2018-12-02	14	2nd	9 20 29 34 51
2018-08-26	8	4th	5 6 14 20 33
2018-07-01	5	1st	20 25 37 45 46
2018-05-27	9	3rd	3 19 20 28 30
2018-03-25	1	4th	3 8 9 20 37
2018-03-18	13	5th	3 4 5 13 20
2017-12-17	8	3rd	2 8 20 28 48
2017-10-22	31	3rd	6 9 20 27 43
2017-03-19	8	2nd	8 20 34 39 44
2017-01-22	6	2nd	11 20 23 32 40
2016-12-11	19	2nd	17 20 34 37 44
2016-07-31	1	4th	6 10 13 20 46
2016-07-24	46	1st	20 23 39 48 53
2015-09-06	19	2nd	2 20 28 45 54
2015-04-26	15	2nd	19 20 22 42 50
2015-01-11	3	4th	3 12 19 20 52
2014-12-21	12	2nd	16 20 21 32 37
2014-09-28	11	2nd	7 20 21 33 38
2014-07-13	9	2nd	3 20 26 27 32
2014-05-11	7	2nd	19 20 21 47 54
2014-03-23	4	2nd	9 20 30 37 44
2014-02-23	6	2nd	4 20 34 41 42
2014-01-12	4	1st	20 25 33 41 42
2013-12-15	16	2nd	3 20 24 40 46
2013-08-25	3	4th	4 8 10 20 51
2013-08-04	6	1st	20 32 38 44 46
2013-06-23	10	3rd	1 11 20 38 39
2013-04-14	2	3rd	4 16 20 22 26
2013-03-31	8	2nd	12 20 27 36 45
2013-02-03	7	3rd	8 16 20 39 47
2012-12-16	13	2nd	9 20 28 31 50
2012-09-16	15	1st	20 25 27 47 48
2012-06-03	8	3rd	2 6 20 25 28
2012-04-08	41	1st	20 33 38 48 51
2011-06-26	15	3rd	6 18 20 22 52
2011-03-13	4	1st	20 25 29 53 54
2011-02-13	6	2nd	8 20 32 49 52
2011-01-02	3	3rd	1 8 20 28 31
2010-12-12	6	3rd	12 18 20 23 49
2010-10-31	9	4th	1 3 9 20 32
2010-08-29	11	1st	20 23 28 45 51
2010-06-13	—	1st	20 36 40 50 54