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Star 7 In Mega Millions under the 5/70 + 1/25 · Oct 2017 – Apr 2025 rules — 776 draws, 1 from 1–25 (an earlier era).
Main numbers Stars 5/70 + 1/24 · since Apr 2025 5/70 + 1/25 · Oct 2017 – Apr 2025 5/75 + 1/15 · Oct 2013 – Oct 2017 5/56 + 1/46 · Jun 2005 – Oct 2013 5/52 + 1/52 · May 2002 – Jun 2005 5/50 + 1/36 · Jan 1999 – May 2002 5/50 + 1/25 · Sep 1996 – Jan 1999 27 times drawn · chance expected 31 −0.74σ
8 draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number
28.8 average wait between appearances · chance says 25.0
171 longest completed wait · 2% chance of one at least that long
7 is drawn as often as chance explains Drawn 27 times in 776 draws against 31.0 expected, −0.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
7 Number 7, draw by draw Drawn 27 times in 776 draws · average wait 28.8 draws · longest completed wait 171 · waiting 8 draws now
7 draws: 2017-12-29 to 2018-01-23 75 draws: 2018-01-23 to 2018-10-12 2 draws: 2018-10-12 to 2018-10-19 25 draws: 2018-10-19 to 2019-01-15 6 draws: 2019-01-15 to 2019-02-05 2 draws: 2019-02-05 to 2019-02-12 7 draws: 2019-02-12 to 2019-03-08 36 draws: 2019-03-08 to 2019-07-12 79 draws: 2019-07-12 to 2020-04-14 19 draws: 2020-04-14 to 2020-06-19 42 draws: 2020-06-19 to 2020-11-13 14 draws: 2020-11-13 to 2021-01-01 171 draws: 2021-01-01 to 2022-08-23 19 draws: 2022-08-23 to 2022-10-28 18 draws: 2022-10-28 to 2022-12-30 16 draws: 2022-12-30 to 2023-02-24 49 draws: 2023-02-24 to 2023-08-15 2 draws: 2023-08-15 to 2023-08-22 14 draws: 2023-08-22 to 2023-10-10 4 draws: 2023-10-10 to 2023-10-24 23 draws: 2023-10-24 to 2024-01-12 11 draws: 2024-01-12 to 2024-02-20 8 draws: 2024-02-20 to 2024-03-19 23 draws: 2024-03-19 to 2024-06-07 40 draws: 2024-06-07 to 2024-10-25 38 draws: 2024-10-25 to 2025-03-07 Still waiting — at least 8 draws since 2025-03-07 2017-12-29 2018-01-23 2018-10-12 2018-10-19 2019-01-15 2019-02-05 2019-02-12 2019-03-08 2019-07-12 2020-04-14 2020-06-19 2020-11-13 2021-01-01 2022-08-23 2022-10-28 2022-12-30 2023-02-24 2023-08-15 2023-08-22 2023-10-10 2023-10-24 2024-01-12 2024-02-20 2024-03-19 2024-06-07 2024-10-25 2025-03-07 2017-10-31 2025-04-04
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1st smallest 27 · chance 27.0 Every position’s lane →
The company it keeps No shared draws yet.
Never drawn alongside 24 of the other 24 numbers; chance expects about 24 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it Under the crowd model, 7 is picked about 1.54× as often as an indifferent choice — 1st most popular of 25. 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 Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10 The number 7 ×1.15 The model and its sources → · What people believe about 7 →
Every draw it appeared in ← star 6 Every number star 8 → 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: 7 is drawn with probability 1/25 tonight whatever it did last week.