Number 63

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

17times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.77σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.7average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

23longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

63 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 158 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.77σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 63, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 158 draws · average wait 9.7 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 63 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.8
4th smallest6 · chance 5.2
5th smallest11 · chance 11.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 11 43 51 2 3

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 26 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 63 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 36th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 63 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	11	4th	2 7 16 63 70
2026-09-01	16	5th	1 22 51 61 63
2026-07-07	4	5th	2 31 35 36 63
2026-06-23	23	4th	48 51 60

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