Number 23

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

14times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.93σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

28longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

23 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 23, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 1 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest3 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest6 · chance 3.9
3rd smallest2 · chance 5.1
4th smallest2 · chance 3.1
5th smallest1 · chance 0.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

10 48 12 33 40 42

Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 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 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	5	4th	9 10 16 23 29 33
2026-09-19	8	2nd	6 23 24 32 44 46
2026-08-22	5	5th	5 10 12 14 23 41
2026-08-05	6	2nd	17 23

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.