In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 515 draws, 5 from 1–49.
71times drawn · chance expected 53 +2.69σ
8draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number
7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
23longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long
24 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 49 numbers
Drawn 71 times in 515 draws against 52.6 expected, +2.69σ. Testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it.
24
Number 24, draw by draw
Drawn 71 times in 515 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 8 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.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 0.1 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.