Number 24

In Euro Millions Plus under the 5/50 · since Sep 2024 rules — 211 draws, 5 from 1–50.

15times drawn · chance expected 21 −1.40σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 81% for any number

14.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

34longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 211 draws against 21.1 expected, −1.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 211 draws · average wait 14.5 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 3 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.2
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.8
4th smallest1 · chance 3.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

30 16 28 35 41 46

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 14 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 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	5	4th	6 13 18 24 41
2026-09-11	8	2nd	8 24 25 28 42
2026-08-14	17	2nd	18 24 26 27 40
2026-06-16	15	2nd	2 24

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.