Number 23

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

13times drawn · chance expected 12 +0.16σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 78% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

17longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 109 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 3 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 0.5
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.2
3rd smallest5 · chance 6.0
4th smallest5 · chance 3.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 19 21 29 2 6

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-28	13	2nd	14 23 29 30
2026-08-13	2	3rd	6 11 23 26
2026-08-06	17	4th	19 20 22 23
2026-06-08	2	3rd	11 12 23 29
2026-06-01	10

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.