Number 24

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

18times drawn · chance expected 11 +2.20σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 58% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

15longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +2.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 107 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 6 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest2 · chance 1.2
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.6
3rd smallest4 · chance 6.5
4th smallest5 · chance 4.3
5th smallest2 · chance 1.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

45 12 32 49 1 4

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 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 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-19	1	3rd	6 23 24 32 44 46
2026-09-16	1	1st	24 25 35 38 44 49
2026-09-12	1	2nd	17 24 26 30 39 45
2026-09-09	2	3rd	12 22

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.