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 2 other numbers.
November 3, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 3 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 8 times. That is 1.0 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 3 ranks 7th, tied with 2 other numbers.
The last appearance was November 3, 2026, which is 2 drawings ago. That gap ranks 22nd longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 85 drawings, after July 18, 2025 and before it returned on May 15, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was October 27, 2026, 2 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 21.0 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 2 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 3 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was November 3, 2026: white balls 4, 24, 31, 62, 70, and Mega Ball 3.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 3 were white ball 9 (2 times), white ball 17 (2 times), and white ball 24 (2 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 2 (8 appearances) and Mega Ball 4 (6 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 99 appearances of Mega Ball 3. The earliest of them is December 27, 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 2 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
- November 3, 2026: white balls 4, 24, 31, 62, 70, and Mega Ball 3
- October 27, 2026: white balls 14, 19, 21, 45, 67, and Mega Ball 3
- October 20, 2026: white balls 13, 28, 33, 35, 48, and Mega Ball 3
- June 12, 2026: white balls 9, 17, 24, 39, 51, and Mega Ball 3
- June 9, 2026: white balls 9, 30, 36, 38, 40, and Mega Ball 3
- May 15, 2026: white balls 17, 23, 25, 52, 61, and Mega Ball 3
- July 18, 2025: white balls 11, 43, 54, 55, 63, and Mega Ball 3
- June 6, 2025: white balls 16, 40, 54, 56, 57, and Mega Ball 3
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 2
- Mega Ball 4
- Mega Millions white ball 9
- Mega Millions white ball 17