Number 24

In Powerball Double Play under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Aug 2021 rules — 805 draws, 5 from 1–69.

61times drawn · chance expected 58 +0.36σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

12.7average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

89longest completed wait · 8% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 61 times in 805 draws against 58.3 expected, +0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 61 times in 805 draws · average wait 12.7 draws · longest completed wait 89 · waiting 11 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 24 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 smallest12 · chance 11.2
2nd smallest23 · chance 24.4
3rd smallest21 · chance 18.8
4th smallest5 · chance 6.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 3.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

40 17 21 23 43 44

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 2 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 24 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 69. 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-16	21	3rd	2 21 24 25 64
2026-07-29	11	1st	24 37 40 51 55
2026-07-04	2	3rd	4 19 24 25 41
2026-06-29	7	3rd	2 9

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: 24 is drawn with probability 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-11-18	9	3rd	2 6 24 36 43
2024-10-28	9	4th	6 16 19 24 40
2024-10-07	29	1st	24 27 47 49 55
2024-07-31	6	2nd	10 24 41 48 61
2024-07-17	20	2nd	3 24 49 56 60
2024-06-01	9	1st	24 40 53 56 59
2024-05-11	13	2nd	21 24 32 39 55
2024-04-10	8	3rd	8 21 24 57 64
2024-03-23	89	2nd	18 24 43 46 47
2023-08-28	25	2nd	23 24 48 61 64
2023-07-01	22	2nd	13 24 49 54 60
2023-05-10	7	3rd	21 22 24 52 58
2023-04-24	2	3rd	9 18 24 30 58
2023-04-19	4	4th	9 17 22 24 31
2023-04-10	16	4th	6 14 20 24 63
2023-03-04	34	3rd	17 18 24 36 56
2022-12-14	13	3rd	3 12 24 40 57
2022-11-14	11	2nd	1 24 32 63 69
2022-10-19	4	2nd	4 24 32 55 59
2022-10-10	2	2nd	4 24 35 52 62
2022-10-05	2	3rd	17 23 24 36 61
2022-10-01	1	2nd	1 24 43 53 63
2022-09-28	21	2nd	14 24 34 56 60
2022-08-10	3	2nd	11 24 30 53 69
2022-08-03	11	1st	24 28 29 31 48
2022-07-09	25	3rd	14 23 24 57 65
2022-05-11	13	2nd	2 24 34 42 54
2022-04-11	5	3rd	18 20 24 29 47
2022-03-30	3	2nd	1 24 44 48 52
2022-03-23	7	3rd	15 18 24 26 62
2022-03-07	13	2nd	17 24 26 41 43
2022-02-05	7	3rd	13 17 24 44 52
2022-01-19	2	1st	24 25 35 59 63
2022-01-15	8	3rd	7 16 24 53 62
2021-12-27	16	4th	6 11 23 24 40
2021-11-20	7	2nd	3 24 37 44 46
2021-11-03	—	3rd	10 22 24 37 47