Number 20

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018 rules — 897 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

105times drawn · chance expected 109 −0.45σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

38longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

20 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 105 times in 897 draws against 109.4 expected, −0.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 20, draw by draw

Drawn 105 times in 897 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 1 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 20 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 smallest11 · chance 6.9
2nd smallest20 · chance 29.0
3rd smallest44 · chance 41.3
4th smallest24 · chance 23.4
5th smallest6 · chance 4.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 2 5 25 27 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 20 is picked about 1.28× as often as an indifferent choice — 13th most popular of 41. 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 20 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2018-11-02	18	3rd	14 16 20 28 41
2018-10-15	11	3rd	4 17 20 38 40
2018-10-04	13	2nd	1 20 32 39 41
2018-09-21	13	4th	8 16 18

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: 20 is drawn with probability 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2018-03-11	1	3rd	6 7 20 33 39
2018-03-10	3	1st	20 26 35 36 41
2018-03-07	13	2nd	13 20 24 30 35
2018-02-22	25	2nd	8 20 25 27 39
2018-01-28	15	4th	6 7 19 20 36
2018-01-13	5	3rd	14 17 20 29 40
2018-01-08	1	3rd	8 10 20 27 31
2018-01-07	4	3rd	5 12 20 23 25
2018-01-03	3	1st	20 24 25 39 40
2017-12-31	11	2nd	2 20 22 30 31
2017-12-20	6	3rd	5 19 20 35 39
2017-12-14	1	3rd	2 14 20 28 30
2017-12-13	2	2nd	10 20 22 27 33
2017-12-11	13	3rd	11 15 20 21 22
2017-11-28	4	3rd	1 16 20 27 31
2017-11-24	3	4th	5 6 10 20 40
2017-11-21	3	4th	1 11 13 20 29
2017-11-18	7	2nd	16 20 29 33 37
2017-11-11	10	3rd	2 5 20 28 35
2017-11-01	1	3rd	3 6 20 23 30
2017-10-31	5	4th	3 4 9 20 33
2017-10-26	9	4th	3 4 7 20 28
2017-10-16	1	4th	5 9 18 20 40
2017-10-15	7	2nd	6 20 21 23 38
2017-10-08	1	3rd	2 8 20 30 41
2017-10-07	8	4th	14 15 19 20 39
2017-09-28	2	3rd	9 13 20 36 37
2017-09-26	8	4th	5 8 11 20 30
2017-09-18	10	4th	11 12 15 20 33
2017-09-08	7	4th	3 6 12 20 37
2017-09-01	4	2nd	5 20 25 40 41
2017-08-28	1	3rd	3 11 20 26 27
2017-08-27	27	3rd	1 17 20 39 40
2017-07-31	29	3rd	6 13 20 31 33
2017-07-02	4	3rd	9 16 20 31 34
2017-06-28	3	5th	4 5 12 16 20
2017-06-25	9	3rd	5 17 20 22 25
2017-06-16	6	2nd	16 20 22 37 40
2017-06-10	9	2nd	4 20 21 23 41
2017-06-01	1	1st	20 23 31 37 40
2017-05-31	5	2nd	1 20 31 36 37
2017-05-26	7	3rd	10 17 20 30 32
2017-05-19	9	4th	2 7 19 20 27
2017-05-10	5	3rd	3 11 20 21 26
2017-05-05	3	5th	6 14 16 18 20
2017-05-02	16	3rd	13 16 20 26 27
2017-04-16	6	1st	20 27 30 32 38
2017-04-10	21	1st	20 27 31 38 41
2017-03-18	4	3rd	1 11 20 30 37
2017-03-14	16	4th	1 7 18 20 25
2017-02-26	25	3rd	2 19 20 23 34
2017-02-01	8	2nd	10 20 23 25 39
2017-01-24	5	4th	8 13 17 20 36
2017-01-19	8	4th	2 4 5 20 21
2017-01-11	4	1st	20 22 26 33 37
2017-01-07	4	2nd	4 20 25 33 40
2017-01-03	14	3rd	9 18 20 37 40
2016-12-20	4	2nd	11 20 21 30 36
2016-12-16	22	3rd	3 6 20 22 26
2016-11-24	1	3rd	2 17 20 22 30
2016-11-23	8	3rd	7 19 20 26 31
2016-11-15	32	4th	1 4 9 20 27
2016-10-14	1	3rd	4 5 20 31 34
2016-10-13	11	2nd	1 20 22 27 33
2016-10-02	5	3rd	4 11 20 21 39
2016-09-27	10	3rd	1 4 20 21 27
2016-09-17	12	2nd	17 20 23 33 40
2016-09-05	7	3rd	8 19 20 28 30
2016-08-29	1	3rd	2 16 20 30 31
2016-08-28	1	3rd	14 19 20 33 35
2016-08-27	5	4th	15 16 17 20 38
2016-08-22	11	4th	6 10 11 20 40
2016-08-11	3	3rd	5 6 20 33 41
2016-08-08	22	3rd	11 15 20 36 38
2016-07-17	1	1st	20 24 27 28 38
2016-07-16	2	4th	12 16 18 20 31
2016-07-14	11	1st	20 22 25 34 38
2016-07-03	8	3rd	14 17 20 30 36
2016-06-25	16	3rd	2 19 20 23 24
2016-06-09	20	3rd	2 7 20 26 41
2016-05-20	—	5th	1 10 11 12 20