Number 24

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

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 52% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 111 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 22 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest0 · chance 0.4
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.0
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.1
4th smallest3 · chance 3.7
5th smallest1 · chance 1.6
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

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.

40 2 11 39 10 14

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 24 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-21	2	3rd	1 21 24 26 39 40
2026-10-14	10	3rd	9 14 24 30 38 46
2026-09-09	8	3rd	14 15 24 40 41 43
2026-08-12	11	4th

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.