Number 20

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 146 draws, 6 from 1–46.

15times drawn · chance expected 19 −0.99σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 57% for any number

10.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

29longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 146 draws against 19.0 expected, −0.99σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 146 draws · average wait 10.0 draws · longest completed wait 29 · 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 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 smallest1 · chance 0.8
2nd smallest2 · chance 3.5
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.5
4th smallest5 · chance 3.9
5th smallest1 · chance 1.2
6th smallest1 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 12 2 7 16 29

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 46. 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
2026-09-22	20	5th	2 7 12 14 20 34
2026-07-14	29	3rd	1 17 20 29 32 41
2026-04-03	2	4th	5 14 18 20 23 26

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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.