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.
August 11, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Millions white ball 20 is tracked here on the current matrix: 5 white balls from 1 through 70, from October 31, 2017 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 943 drawings it appeared 73 times. That is 5.6 appearances above the even-split count of 67.4. An even split gives every white ball the same share of those drawings, because five white balls are drawn from the field each time. The median count in this pool of 70 is 67.0. Mega Millions white ball 20 ranks 17th, tied with 3 other numbers.
The last appearance was August 11, 2026, which is 26 drawings ago. That gap ranks 4th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 46 drawings, after July 4, 2025 and before it returned on December 16, 2025.
The appearance before the latest one was August 7, 2026, 1 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 12.5 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2020 had the most appearances, 11. 2018 had the fewest, 5. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 0 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was August 11, 2026: white balls 1, 20, 30, 46, 68, and Mega Ball 17.
When Mega Millions white ball 20 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 10 (10 times), white ball 46 (10 times), and white ball 54 (8 times). A pair that leads this list is a pair that happened. The next drawing still takes five white balls from the full field.
The Mega Ball values in those same drawings were led by Mega Ball 18 (7 times), Mega Ball 19 (6 times), and Mega Ball 15 (5 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 19 (71 appearances) and white ball 21 (63 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 231 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 20. The earliest of them is July 5, 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 26 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Millions white ball has a 5-in-70 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
- August 11, 2026: white balls 1, 20, 30, 46, 68, and Mega Ball 17
- August 7, 2026: white balls 17, 20, 32, 54, 57, and Mega Ball 23
- June 16, 2026: white balls 12, 20, 53, 67, 70, and Mega Ball 12
- March 20, 2026: white balls 11, 20, 51, 55, 63, and Mega Ball 4
- January 27, 2026: white balls 4, 20, 38, 56, 66, and Mega Ball 5
- December 16, 2025: white balls 20, 24, 46, 59, 65, and Mega Ball 7
- July 4, 2025: white balls 17, 20, 24, 41, 42, and Mega Ball 24
- March 7, 2025: white balls 8, 20, 48, 58, 60, and Mega Ball 7, multiplier 3×
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Millions white ball 19
- Mega Millions white ball 21
- Mega Millions white ball 10
- Mega Millions white ball 46