Number 23

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

17times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.54σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

19longest completed wait · 67% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, +0.54σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 19 · 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 23 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.3
2nd smallest5 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.3
4th smallest3 · chance 5.8
5th smallest3 · chance 2.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 3 26 29 30 38

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	2	2nd	12 23 29 31 33 34
2026-10-01	6	3rd	9 14 23 28 31 43
2026-09-10	6	2nd	7 23 24 30 37 39
2026-08-20	3	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: 23 is drawn with probability 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.