Number 20

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 4 from 1–35.

14times drawn · chance expected 12 +0.46σ

18draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

5.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

14longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, +0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 18 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws · average wait 5.3 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 18 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest7 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest5 · chance 6.0
4th smallest2 · chance 2.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 19 32 27 6 8

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 35. 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
2026-08-06	1	2nd	19 20 22 23
2026-08-03	14	4th	4 15 19 20
2026-06-15	4	3rd	9 12 20 21
2026-06-01	3	2nd	18 20 21 23
2026-05-21	2

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.