Number 20

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

11times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.02σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 30% for any number

9.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

25longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.2 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 12 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest1 · chance 3.7
3rd smallest7 · chance 3.8
4th smallest3 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 39 47 50 3 5

Never drawn alongside 24 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 58. 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
2026-08-29	4	2nd	3 20 30 35 39 50
2026-08-15	10	4th	2 13 19 20 34 52
2026-07-11	3	3rd	8 14 20 33 34 47
2026-07-01	3	3rd	5 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: 20 is drawn with probability 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.