Number 21

In Bank a Million under the 6/40 + 1/40 · since Sep 2015 rules — 1,160 draws, 6 from 1–40.

206times drawn · chance expected 174 +2.63σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 61% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 6.7

26longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

21 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 40 numbers

Drawn 206 times in 1,160 draws against 174.0 expected, +2.63σ. Testing all 40 numbers at once means about 0.4 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.5e-4 and this does not pass it. It has also come out as the bonus ball 27 times, counted separately.

Number 21, draw by draw

Drawn 206 times in 1,160 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 4 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 21 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 smallest3 · chance 4.2
2nd smallest31 · chance 27.7
3rd smallest65 · chance 65.9
4th smallest70 · chance 69.7
5th smallest34 · chance 32.9
6th smallest3 · chance 5.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 26.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

40 12 14 33 17 28

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 39 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 21 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 40. 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 21 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-26	5	4th	12 14 15 21 25 38
2026-09-09	1	6th	4 7 17 19 20 21
2026-09-05	3	5th	2 7 8 17 21 22
2026-08-26

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: 21 is drawn with probability 6/40 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-08-27	2	2nd	1 21 24 26 28 35
2025-08-20	2	5th	1 8 14 18 21 39
2025-08-13	1	3rd	8 14 21 27 34 35
2025-08-09	7	3rd	4 15 21 23 26 32
2025-07-16	3	4th	16 18 20 21 25 33
2025-07-05	4	3rd	4 12 21 27 31 36
2025-06-21	5	4th	1 4 5 21 33 34
2025-06-04	2	2nd	10 21 25 26 28 38
2025-05-28	19	3rd	8 20 21 30 31 40
2025-03-22	16	4th	3 10 18 21 25 34
2025-01-25	10	4th	13 17 20 21 23 40
2024-12-21	12	3rd	18 19 21 22 37 40
2024-11-09	1	4th	11 12 20 21 37 38
2024-11-06	2	4th	2 3 20 21 34 38
2024-10-30	1	3rd	1 6 21 25 27 32
2024-10-26	5	5th	9 12 15 19 21 37
2024-10-09	1	4th	12 14 18 21 34 37
2024-10-05	5	3rd	9 16 21 25 38 39
2024-09-18	5	3rd	11 20 21 23 38 40
2024-08-31	5	4th	2 10 15 21 26 31
2024-08-14	4	3rd	3 9 21 33 36 39
2024-07-31	4	4th	8 16 18 21 28 35
2024-07-17	8	3rd	7 9 21 22 34 39
2024-06-19	3	3rd	2 7 21 22 23 26
2024-06-08	1	4th	4 6 19 21 22 35
2024-06-05	1	5th	5 14 15 20 21 24
2024-06-01	5	3rd	3 14 21 31 37 39
2024-05-15	6	3rd	14 16 21 23 35 37
2024-04-24	2	4th	1 17 19 21 34 40
2024-04-17	2	5th	6 7 16 19 21 23
2024-04-10	1	5th	5 9 13 15 21 28
2024-04-06	1	3rd	1 17 21 23 25 28
2024-04-03	5	4th	2 6 12 21 26 28
2024-03-16	13	4th	2 6 9 21 24 28
2024-01-31	6	4th	9 11 17 21 28 40
2024-01-10	2	4th	6 9 10 21 25 29
2024-01-03	1	3rd	13 19 21 28 29 36
2023-12-30	1	4th	14 18 20 21 25 35
2023-12-27	1	4th	4 10 20 21 29 34
2023-12-23	10	5th	1 8 12 17 21 36
2023-11-18	6	3rd	7 13 21 29 33 34
2023-10-28	19	2nd	8 21 25 38 39 40
2023-08-23	7	4th	9 12 13 21 31 34
2023-07-29	6	4th	7 10 17 21 26 38
2023-07-08	1	1st	21 23 28 32 35 40
2023-07-05	2	4th	7 12 18 21 32 34
2023-06-28	6	5th	8 9 13 17 21 38
2023-06-07	3	2nd	19 21 22 27 33 40
2023-05-27	8	3rd	19 20 21 28 34 39
2023-04-29	12	3rd	12 17 21 22 28 35
2023-03-18	12	4th	8 11 20 21 22 31
2023-02-04	4	4th	11 13 18 21 22 25
2023-01-21	1	4th	6 11 16 21 25 38
2023-01-18	12	3rd	1 2 21 23 32 33
2022-12-07	12	4th	4 5 14 21 31 37
2022-10-26	3	3rd	5 19 21 25 32 37
2022-10-15	3	5th	1 5 17 18 21 25
2022-10-05	1	4th	3 4 5 21 29 33
2022-10-01	8	3rd	6 14 21 31 35 39
2022-09-03	16	5th	4 5 10 17 21 23
2022-07-09	20	4th	5 16 19 21 34 36
2022-04-30	2	2nd	1 21 24 26 28 32
2022-04-23	5	3rd	7 17 21 22 28 33
2022-04-06	9	3rd	2 4 21 23 28 32
2022-03-05	2	1st	21 22 28 31 34 36
2022-02-26	1	3rd	1 15 21 31 34 39
2022-02-23	3	4th	12 14 15 21 30 39
2022-02-12	5	2nd	15 21 25 29 33 40
2022-01-26	6	3rd	14 18 21 25 33 39
2022-01-05	2	4th	1 18 19 21 24 37
2021-12-29	2	4th	4 11 14 21 24 33
2021-12-22	2	3rd	4 8 21 25 32 35
2021-12-15	4	4th	2 7 10 21 28 39
2021-12-01	2	4th	3 11 17 21 23 38
2021-11-24	6	2nd	1 21 31 32 39 40
2021-11-03	13	5th	2 4 15 16 21 36
2021-09-18	4	4th	4 6 11 21 35 37
2021-09-04	2	5th	1 4 13 20 21 36
2021-08-28	9	4th	2 3 4 21 26 34
2021-07-28	6	4th	16 17 18 21 38 39
2021-07-07	1	3rd	14 17 21 23 25 39
2021-07-03	18	2nd	9 21 29 30 31 36
2021-05-01	3	4th	11 17 19 21 30 39
2021-04-21	3	4th	2 8 11 21 24 38
2021-04-10	1	3rd	19 20 21 27 28 36
2021-04-07	2	3rd	3 17 21 29 34 36
2021-03-31	4	5th	1 2 16 18 21 32
2021-03-17	26	3rd	1 5 21 22 30 33
2020-12-16	3	3rd	1 18 21 26 29 30
2020-12-05	4	3rd	9 17 21 27 33 38
2020-11-21	24	5th	2 4 8 12 21 22
2020-08-29	8	3rd	1 14 21 22 24 37
2020-08-01	1	4th	11 12 14 21 28 31
2020-07-29	5	2nd	14 21 22 32 36 40
2020-07-11	12	2nd	15 21 24 26 31 37
2020-05-30	7	3rd	2 13 21 26 32 40
2020-05-06	5	4th	7 12 14 21 31 40
2020-04-18	2	4th	7 9 18 21 26 39
2020-04-11	8	5th	8 11 13 15 21 33
2020-03-14	4	3rd	1 8 21 22 29 31
2020-02-29	1	4th	4 9 10 21 36 39
2020-02-26	5	3rd	12 20 21 24 34 38
2020-02-08	2	2nd	2 21 25 27 29 34
2020-02-01	2	3rd	3 14 21 28 30 39
2020-01-25	5	4th	6 8 19 21 32 39
2020-01-08	1	4th	2 14 15 21 31 38
2020-01-04	2	3rd	2 14 21 25 30 33
2019-12-28	1	2nd	19 21 22 24 30 40
2019-12-25	22	4th	2 10 13 21 27 29
2019-10-09	1	5th	1 4 5 17 21 39
2019-10-05	5	4th	2 11 12 21 27 40
2019-09-18	15	4th	3 14 20 21 22 23
2019-07-27	1	2nd	18 21 27 28 29 36
2019-07-24	3	2nd	14 21 26 27 30 40
2019-07-13	7	4th	5 10 19 21 37 40
2019-06-19	1	2nd	17 21 24 30 31 38
2019-06-15	2	5th	7 8 9 19 21 36
2019-06-08	1	3rd	14 18 21 28 32 36
2019-06-05	13	2nd	1 21 36 37 38 39
2019-04-20	4	4th	2 6 19 21 31 33
2019-04-06	7	4th	6 13 15 21 38 39
2019-03-13	4	3rd	4 20 21 30 32 40
2019-02-27	2	4th	7 10 17 21 22 35
2019-02-20	4	5th	8 12 14 15 21 34
2019-02-06	4	4th	9 11 16 21 24 28
2019-01-23	2	3rd	11 14 21 23 24 40
2019-01-16	3	5th	8 12 17 20 21 40
2019-01-05	20	5th	3 12 13 15 21 34
2018-10-27	13	5th	6 10 11 17 21 35
2018-09-12	4	3rd	5 17 21 30 35 40
2018-08-29	1	5th	4 8 14 19 21 39
2018-08-25	8	3rd	4 17 21 23 28 37
2018-07-28	9	3rd	2 12 21 28 36 40
2018-06-27	7	2nd	2 21 23 27 35 36
2018-06-02	1	4th	6 7 11 21 22 31
2018-05-30	4	3rd	3 7 21 31 33 35
2018-05-16	17	3rd	5 13 21 22 30 31
2018-03-17	4	4th	11 15 16 21 30 37
2018-03-03	3	3rd	16 20 21 33 38 39
2018-02-21	15	4th	4 5 12 21 24 38
2017-12-30	2	5th	1 6 8 16 21 40
2017-12-23	22	4th	8 11 20 21 39 40
2017-10-07	9	3rd	3 15 21 25 35 37
2017-09-06	3	4th	12 13 18 21 37 38
2017-08-26	1	3rd	2 8 21 23 24 28
2017-08-23	26	3rd	5 12 21 31 33 36
2017-05-24	3	5th	10 11 17 19 21 30
2017-05-13	6	3rd	10 13 21 32 34 40
2017-04-22	2	4th	10 16 19 21 25 39
2017-04-15	10	3rd	4 14 21 25 26 38
2017-03-11	10	4th	3 5 12 21 27 34
2017-02-04	3	4th	2 13 14 21 31 34
2017-01-25	4	2nd	4 21 25 26 35 40
2017-01-11	4	4th	7 11 18 21 24 33
2016-12-28	1	2nd	12 21 24 31 33 34
2016-12-24	5	2nd	16 21 22 30 35 40
2016-12-07	6	4th	9 11 18 21 32 36
2016-11-16	9	5th	6 9 13 16 21 26
2016-10-15	1	3rd	12 18 21 30 32 33
2016-10-12	9	3rd	12 18 21 26 30 34
2016-09-10	4	6th	2 7 16 17 18 21
2016-08-27	10	5th	1 3 11 13 21 22
2016-07-23	6	2nd	15 21 25 30 33 35
2016-07-02	4	3rd	5 10 21 24 30 40
2016-06-18	9	3rd	4 14 21 22 31 39
2016-05-18	6	5th	7 8 12 17 21 22
2016-04-27	5	2nd	18 21 22 33 36 37
2016-04-09	1	2nd	8 21 24 32 34 40
2016-04-06	3	1st	21 26 30 32 33 35
2016-03-26	4	2nd	20 21 29 30 34 37
2016-03-12	4	5th	3 14 19 20 21 31
2016-02-27	1	3rd	1 6 21 27 28 32
2016-02-24	7	3rd	4 5 21 22 29 36
2016-01-30	6	2nd	9 21 23 29 36 38
2016-01-09	3	4th	8 15 17 21 38 40
2015-12-30	6	5th	1 13 16 20 21 33
2015-12-09	2	2nd	8 21 22 23 31 33
2015-12-02	14	5th	1 6 12 16 21 38
2015-10-14	4	4th	2 4 13 21 29 33
2015-09-30	7	4th	9 14 20 21 31 33
2015-09-05	1	2nd	18 21 27 29 35 40
2015-09-02	—	5th	1 7 8 17 21 33