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 3 other numbers.
October 23, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 5 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 6 times. That is 1.0 appearances below 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 5 ranks 14th, tied with 3 other numbers.
The last appearance was October 23, 2026, which is 5 drawings ago. That gap ranks 20th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 76 drawings, after January 27, 2026 and before it returned on October 23, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was January 27, 2026, 77 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 27.4 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 4 appearances in 2025 and 2 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 3 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 1 time. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was October 23, 2026: white balls 3, 7, 46, 49, 51, and Mega Ball 5.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 5 were white ball 10 (2 times), white ball 3 (once), and white ball 4 (once). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 4 (6 appearances) and Mega Ball 6 (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 71 appearances of Mega Ball 5. The earliest of them is September 17, 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 5 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
- October 23, 2026: white balls 3, 7, 46, 49, 51, and Mega Ball 5
- January 27, 2026: white balls 4, 20, 38, 56, 66, and Mega Ball 5
- December 12, 2025: white balls 10, 50, 55, 58, 59, and Mega Ball 5
- November 7, 2025: white balls 16, 21, 23, 48, 70, and Mega Ball 5
- September 16, 2025: white balls 10, 14, 34, 40, 43, and Mega Ball 5
- July 1, 2025: white balls 19, 28, 31, 39, 54, and Mega Ball 5
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 4
- Mega Ball 6
- Mega Millions white ball 10
- Mega Millions white ball 3