Number 24

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

9times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.04σ

38draws waiting · a wait this long: 1% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

18longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, −1.04σ. Each draw is independent: after 38 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 109 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 38 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.2
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 4.2
4th smallest5 · chance 2.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 10 11 12 17 19

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-05-28	18	2nd	10 24 25 29
2026-03-26	3	4th	2 17 23 24
2026-03-16	18	4th	12 14 20 24
2026-01-12	2	3rd	8 11 24 32
2026-01-05	14

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.