In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.
19times drawn · chance expected 15 +1.05σ
4draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number
5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2
24longest completed wait · 44% chance of one at least that long
24 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 19 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, +1.05σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
24
Number 24, draw by draw
Drawn 19 times in 109 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 4 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 4 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 43. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.