Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 1 other number.
September 4, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 24 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Mega Ball field of 1 through 24, from April 8, 2025 through November 10, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 167 drawings it appeared 11 times. That is 4.0 appearances above the even-split count of 7.0. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 24 is 7.0. Mega Ball 24 ranks 2nd, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 4, 2026, which is 19 drawings ago. That gap ranks 13th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 31 drawings, after May 1, 2026 and before it returned on August 21, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was August 21, 2026, 4 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 12.9 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
This set does not contain a complete calendar year, so a busiest-year label would overread a partial season. The raw yearly counts are 5 appearances in 2025 and 6 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 2 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was September 4, 2026: white balls 6, 26, 34, 59, 61, and Mega Ball 24.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 24 were white ball 38 (4 times), white ball 6 (3 times), and white ball 11 (3 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 23 (7 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,556 drawings and records 76 appearances of Mega Ball 24. The earliest of them is May 28, 2002. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 19 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Ball has a 1-in-24 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- September 4, 2026: white balls 6, 26, 34, 59, 61, and Mega Ball 24
- August 21, 2026: white balls 1, 25, 34, 48, 57, and Mega Ball 24
- May 1, 2026: white balls 16, 21, 27, 41, 61, and Mega Ball 24
- March 17, 2026: white balls 4, 11, 18, 38, 50, and Mega Ball 24
- March 6, 2026: white balls 8, 19, 26, 38, 42, and Mega Ball 24
- January 6, 2026: white balls 9, 39, 47, 58, 68, and Mega Ball 24
- October 24, 2025: white balls 11, 18, 31, 51, 56, and Mega Ball 24
- September 5, 2025: white balls 6, 14, 36, 58, 62, and Mega Ball 24