In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/0 · Nov 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 296 draws, 4 from 1–35 (an earlier era).
31times drawn · chance expected 34 −0.52σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
9.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8
40longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long
24 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 31 times in 296 draws against 33.8 expected, −0.52σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
24
Number 24, draw by draw
Drawn 31 times in 296 draws · average wait 9.8 draws · longest completed wait 40 · 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 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.
Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 2 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 35. 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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.