Number 20

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

14times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.33σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

28longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, −0.33σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 28 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 0.6
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.0
4th smallest4 · chance 4.0
5th smallest2 · chance 1.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

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.

8 3 18 24 28 38

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 42 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 43. 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
2026-10-12	5	2nd	3 20 21 25 36 40
2026-09-24	28	4th	2 3 6 20 35 39
2026-06-18	1	3rd	8 11 20 26 30 43
2026-06-15	10	5th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.