Number 20

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.25σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

13longest completed wait · 91% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, +0.25σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 99 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 10 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 smallest0 · chance 0.5
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest5 · chance 5.3
4th smallest7 · chance 4.5
5th smallest2 · chance 1.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 7 4 5 11 18

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 7 such strangers 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 42. 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
2026-09-05	3	4th	3 7 8 20 21 34
2026-08-26	8	4th	1 2 9 20 35 39
2026-07-29	5	4th	7 10 11 20 29 40
2026-07-11	12	4th

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.