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.
March 13, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 9 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 9 ranks 14th, tied with 3 other numbers.
The last appearance was March 13, 2026, which is 69 drawings ago. That gap ranks 4th longest in the pool. The longest miss is the one still open at the end of this set: 69 drawings since March 13, 2026. That open stretch is the longest miss in the set.
The appearance before the latest one was November 21, 2025, 32 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 18.4 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 5 appearances in 2025 and 1 appearance in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 1 time, and in the latest 25 it appeared 0 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was March 13, 2026: white balls 6, 19, 36, 40, 55, and Mega Ball 9.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 9 were white ball 6 (2 times), white ball 19 (2 times), and white ball 40 (2 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 8 (7 appearances) and Mega Ball 10 (8 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 98 appearances of Mega Ball 9. The earliest of them is May 21, 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 69 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
- March 13, 2026: white balls 6, 19, 36, 40, 55, and Mega Ball 9
- November 21, 2025: white balls 3, 4, 19, 31, 63, and Mega Ball 9
- October 31, 2025: white balls 2, 24, 52, 66, 68, and Mega Ball 9
- June 20, 2025: white balls 26, 49, 58, 61, 63, and Mega Ball 9
- May 27, 2025: white balls 6, 28, 34, 48, 62, and Mega Ball 9
- April 25, 2025: white balls 38, 40, 60, 62, 70, and Mega Ball 9
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 8
- Mega Ball 10
- Mega Millions white ball 6
- Mega Millions white ball 19