Number 68

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

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 80% for any number

11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

31longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

68 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws against 11.3 expected, +0.84σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 68, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 158 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 31 · 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 68 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 0.0
4th smallest1 · chance 1.6
5th smallest13 · chance 12.4

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.

24 25 37 40 7 9

Never drawn alongside 28 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 31 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 68 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 68 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	1	5th	25 57 58 67 68
2026-09-22	1	5th	7 13 26 37 68
2026-09-18	11	5th	4 9 24 56 68
2026-08-11	6	5th	1 20 30

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