In Montana Cash under the 5/37 · Apr 2010 – May 2014 rules — 428 draws, 5 from 1–37 (an earlier era).
47times drawn · chance expected 58 −1.53σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number
8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4
40longest completed wait · 15% chance of one at least that long
24 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 47 times in 428 draws against 57.8 expected, −1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
24
Number 24, draw by draw
Drawn 47 times in 428 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 6 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 36 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet 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 37. 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 5/37 tonight whatever it did last week.