Number 20

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

97times drawn · chance expected 92 +0.60σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

37longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 97 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, +0.60σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 97 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 2 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 smallest4 · chance 3.4
2nd smallest18 · chance 18.0
3rd smallest25 · chance 34.1
4th smallest31 · chance 29.0
5th smallest15 · chance 11.0
6th smallest4 · chance 1.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 17 27 2 10 14

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 42. 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
2026-10-03	8	4th	3 14 19 20 24 27
2026-09-05	1	1st	20 21 25 30 32 42
2026-09-02	1	1st	20 21 23 25 32 38
2026-08-29	37	4th	13

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-01-29	3	3rd	9 10 20 22 27 35
2025-01-18	3	4th	1 7 19 20 30 38
2025-01-08	5	4th	4 8 18 20 32 33
2024-12-18	1	4th	2 10 17 20 32 42
2024-12-14	10	2nd	12 20 21 22 23 27
2024-11-09	8	3rd	6 16 20 32 35 36
2024-10-12	2	4th	4 12 17 20 25 27
2024-10-05	13	3rd	2 10 20 25 27 34
2024-08-21	7	2nd	8 20 23 31 37 39
2024-07-27	5	5th	7 8 14 17 20 32
2024-07-10	3	2nd	17 20 22 30 33 34
2024-06-29	13	5th	9 13 18 19 20 23
2024-05-15	6	5th	8 16 17 19 20 25
2024-04-24	9	3rd	5 6 20 26 38 40
2024-03-23	9	2nd	1 20 26 28 30 35
2024-02-21	8	6th	1 3 5 6 12 20
2024-01-24	4	4th	3 9 12 20 23 29
2024-01-10	3	5th	3 4 5 19 20 31
2023-12-30	2	4th	7 9 14 20 32 39
2023-12-23	9	4th	4 6 8 20 23 30
2023-11-22	1	5th	10 12 14 15 20 36
2023-11-18	1	4th	2 8 14 20 21 32
2023-11-15	3	5th	2 4 11 17 20 39
2023-11-04	10	4th	5 8 15 20 23 38
2023-09-30	12	4th	7 10 17 20 21 22
2023-08-19	6	4th	6 12 15 20 29 35
2023-07-29	1	5th	2 3 14 19 20 24
2023-07-26	3	3rd	10 15 20 27 28 36
2023-07-15	1	3rd	5 9 20 22 28 41
2023-07-12	12	3rd	12 18 20 23 30 33
2023-05-31	20	4th	10 12 15 20 33 36
2023-03-22	1	2nd	1 20 21 34 35 40
2023-03-18	1	5th	1 9 12 16 20 33
2023-03-15	3	3rd	3 12 20 22 30 33
2023-03-04	13	3rd	1 15 20 24 34 38
2023-01-18	9	2nd	14 20 21 33 35 40
2022-12-17	8	4th	9 13 16 20 29 31
2022-11-19	6	4th	3 10 15 20 36 42
2022-10-29	16	2nd	1 20 25 27 30 37
2022-09-03	9	3rd	10 14 20 32 35 36
2022-08-03	10	3rd	4 15 20 25 27 30
2022-06-29	6	5th	2 6 11 19 20 27
2022-06-08	11	4th	13 17 18 20 22 25
2022-04-30	6	2nd	12 20 21 24 36 37
2022-04-09	25	2nd	9 20 22 37 38 40
2022-01-12	3	3rd	6 11 20 31 40 41
2022-01-01	7	2nd	17 20 28 30 33 37
2021-12-04	5	4th	2 9 18 20 27 42
2021-11-17	3	3rd	3 16 20 21 24 34
2021-11-06	1	2nd	2 20 25 31 32 35
2021-11-03	7	2nd	1 20 21 24 32 33
2021-10-09	9	2nd	6 20 21 29 36 39
2021-09-08	5	4th	5 10 13 20 32 39
2021-08-21	10	5th	2 14 15 18 20 28
2021-07-17	2	5th	1 7 11 18 20 27
2021-07-10	5	3rd	1 17 20 25 28 37
2021-06-23	1	3rd	9 14 20 24 27 38
2021-06-19	4	3rd	3 6 20 30 34 36
2021-06-05	2	4th	5 9 11 20 26 28
2021-05-29	1	3rd	4 10 20 30 35 36
2021-05-26	2	4th	1 15 16 20 26 31
2021-05-19	5	2nd	13 20 26 30 34 36
2021-05-01	17	4th	8 9 19 20 24 27
2021-03-03	1	5th	2 9 12 14 20 29
2021-02-27	11	4th	12 16 17 20 27 36
2021-01-20	24	2nd	4 20 25 29 39 42
2020-10-28	1	5th	3 12 15 17 20 29
2020-10-24	10	2nd	16 20 25 31 33 41
2020-09-19	2	3rd	1 2 20 27 28 35
2020-09-12	3	4th	5 11 14 20 22 29
2020-09-02	1	4th	2 10 12 20 21 25
2020-08-29	1	3rd	1 7 20 34 38 42
2020-08-26	—	3rd	11 13 20 28 30 41