Number 20

In Megabucks Plus under the 5/41 + 1/6 · since Apr 2023 rules — 523 draws, 5 from 1–41.

76times drawn · chance expected 64 +1.63σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

31longest completed wait · 78% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 523 draws against 63.8 expected, +1.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 523 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 7 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 smallest6 · chance 5.0
2nd smallest23 · chance 21.0
3rd smallest26 · chance 29.9
4th smallest17 · chance 16.9
5th smallest4 · chance 3.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 25 23 19 1 37

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 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 41. 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
2026-09-26	1	1st	20 22 32 40 41
2026-09-23	3	3rd	10 15 20 21 30
2026-09-16	2	3rd	9 18 20 28 33
2026-09-12	1	1st	20 23

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

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