Number 24

In Mega Millions under the 5/70 + 1/24 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–70.

14times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.84σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number

11.5average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

34longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws against 11.3 expected, +0.84σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws · average wait 11.5 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 6 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 2.6
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.7
3rd smallest7 · chance 4.2
4th smallest2 · chance 1.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 17 68 6 9 13

Never drawn alongside 30 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 31 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 70. 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-18	28	3rd	4 9 24 56 68
2026-06-12	4	3rd	9 17 24 39 51
2026-05-29	13	2nd	19 24 47 59 65
2026-04-14	34	3rd	17 21 24

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: 24 is drawn with probability 5/70 tonight whatever it did last week.