Number 69

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

54times drawn · chance expected 55 −0.20σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

14.6average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

93longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

69 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 54 times in 776 draws against 55.4 expected, −0.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 69, draw by draw

Drawn 54 times in 776 draws · average wait 14.6 draws · longest completed wait 93 · 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 69 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest5 · chance 3.1
5th smallest49 · chance 50.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 3.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 46 35 36 68 5

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 3 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 69 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 36th 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 above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 69 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-04-04	7	5th	11 28 35 37 69
2025-03-11	15	5th	1 19 26 38 69
2025-01-17	4	5th	8 10 37 54 69
2025-01-03	5	5th	20 42

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

2022-08-05	8	5th	2 5 29 64 69
2022-07-08	6	5th	20 36 61 62 69
2022-06-17	8	5th	20 36 53 56 69
2022-05-20	7	5th	33 40 59 60 69
2022-04-26	38	5th	5 7 19 46 69
2021-12-14	22	5th	33 35 44 55 69
2021-09-28	15	5th	18 30 43 68 69
2021-08-06	4	5th	9 18 40 46 69
2021-07-23	5	5th	13 17 19 40 69
2021-07-06	2	5th	18 47 63 68 69
2021-06-29	29	5th	7 38 50 52 69
2021-03-19	1	5th	9 14 40 58 69
2021-03-16	21	5th	10 41 46 52 69
2021-01-01	2	5th	8 24 53 68 69
2020-12-25	18	4th	17 23 36 69 70
2020-10-23	24	5th	18 34 44 60 69
2020-07-31	31	5th	12 35 46 48 69
2020-04-14	10	4th	29 47 65 69 70
2020-03-10	28	5th	6 17 48 54 69
2019-12-03	93	5th	23 43 60 63 69
2019-01-11	7	5th	4 5 31 62 69
2018-12-18	9	5th	13 22 32 60 69
2018-11-16	1	5th	33 36 63 68 69
2018-11-13	2	5th	34 46 57 65 69
2018-11-06	6	5th	28 34 37 56 69
2018-10-16	3	5th	3 45 49 61 69
2018-10-05	19	5th	27 28 32 41 69
2018-07-31	76	5th	12 15 35 64 69
2017-11-07	1	5th	1 54 60 68 69
2017-11-03	—	5th	10 22 42 61 69