Number 27

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

15times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.15σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

30longest completed wait · 82% chance of one at least that long

27 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 158 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.15σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 27, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 158 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 3 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 27 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 2.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 5.6
3rd smallest9 · chance 5.1
4th smallest2 · chance 1.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 21 59 2 10 16

Never drawn alongside 25 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 29 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 27 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 27 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	4	4th	10 15 16 27 64
2026-09-15	9	1st	27 36 43 57 58
2026-08-14	30	3rd	3 23 27 46 60
2026-05-01	10	3rd	16 21 27

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