Number 23

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

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.82σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 29% for any number

4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

27longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, +0.82σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 99 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 9 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 23 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 0.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.1
4th smallest5 · chance 6.0
5th smallest6 · chance 3.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 36 1 14 34 15

Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 5 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 23 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 23 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-09	7	2nd	16 23 30 36 38 39
2026-08-15	3	3rd	12 21 23 26 33 41
2026-08-05	6	4th	1 8 16 23 32 37
2026-07-15	5	5th

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: 23 is drawn with probability 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.