Number 24

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 243 draws, 5 from 1–58.

16times drawn · chance expected 21 −1.13σ

25draws waiting · a wait this long: 11% for any number

13.3average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

25longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

24 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 243 draws against 20.9 expected, −1.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 25 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 24, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 243 draws · average wait 13.3 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 25 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.

1st smallest3 · chance 1.9
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.6
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.7
4th smallest3 · chance 2.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 8 15 30 38 42

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 19 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 58. 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
2026-09-27	22	1st	24 25 30 35 47
2026-09-05	11	3rd	8 22 24 38 58
2026-08-25	15	1st	24 45 50 53 57
2026-08-10	20	2nd	2 24

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.