Number 20

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 111 draws, 6 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.46σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

24longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 111 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 16 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 smallest2 · chance 0.8
2nd smallest1 · chance 3.2
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.4
4th smallest3 · chance 2.8
5th smallest1 · chance 0.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

48 17 30 2 6 12

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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 49. 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
2026-08-26	23	4th	5 12 17 20 41 48
2026-06-06	3	3rd	3 8 20 28 30 49
2026-05-27	4	3rd	16 19 20 28 33 41
2026-05-13	4	1st

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.