Number 19

In Mega Millions under the 5/70 + 1/25 · Oct 2017 – Apr 2025 rules — 776 draws, 5 from 1–70 (an earlier era).

59times drawn · chance expected 55 +0.50σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

12.7average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

83longest completed wait · 12% chance of one at least that long

19 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 59 times in 776 draws against 55.4 expected, +0.50σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 19, draw by draw

Drawn 59 times in 776 draws · average wait 12.7 draws · longest completed wait 83 · waiting 7 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 19 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 smallest13 · chance 17.1
2nd smallest28 · chance 25.6
3rd smallest13 · chance 13.3
4th smallest5 · chance 2.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 3.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 13 31 47 15 68

Never drawn alongside 3 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 2 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 19 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 70. 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 19 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-03-11	2	2nd	1 19 26 38 69
2025-03-04	1	2nd	14 19 47 52 70
2025-02-28	4	2nd	9 19 30 35 66
2025-02-14	5	2nd	11 19

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: 19 is drawn with probability 5/70 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-11-15	54	2nd	6 19 28 46 61
2022-05-10	2	2nd	15 19 20 61 70
2022-05-03	2	2nd	15 19 27 35 57
2022-04-26	15	3rd	5 7 19 46 69
2022-03-04	13	2nd	11 19 28 46 47
2022-01-18	2	2nd	4 19 39 42 52
2022-01-11	22	3rd	2 3 19 52 58
2021-10-26	2	3rd	6 14 19 56 62
2021-10-19	10	4th	3 12 13 19 52
2021-09-14	13	3rd	4 13 19 63 64
2021-07-30	2	1st	19 26 31 52 68
2021-07-23	22	3rd	13 17 19 40 69
2021-05-07	2	3rd	5 10 19 21 50
2021-04-30	5	2nd	8 19 26 48 49
2021-04-13	2	3rd	10 15 19 45 68
2021-04-06	22	2nd	1 19 20 32 42
2021-01-19	11	2nd	10 19 26 28 50
2020-12-11	1	1st	19 31 37 55 67
2020-12-08	1	2nd	15 19 33 39 68
2020-12-04	10	2nd	3 19 24 44 50
2020-10-30	16	2nd	14 19 34 39 59
2020-09-04	20	1st	19 22 24 28 53
2020-06-26	11	1st	19 33 37 56 57
2020-05-19	6	2nd	8 19 25 36 66
2020-04-28	47	2nd	13 19 53 54 63
2019-11-15	1	2nd	12 19 34 35 68
2019-11-12	19	1st	19 30 44 56 65
2019-09-06	24	4th	4 11 13 19 31
2019-06-14	2	1st	19 40 47 57 65
2019-06-07	83	2nd	17 19 27 40 68
2018-08-21	8	3rd	14 16 19 38 57
2018-07-24	26	4th	1 2 4 19 29
2018-04-24	17	2nd	3 19 31 32 48
2018-02-23	1	4th	7 11 13 19 58
2018-02-20	—	2nd	17 19 23 24 43