Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool.
August 14, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Millions white ball 23 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 55 times. That is 12.4 appearances below 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 23 ranks 66th.
The last appearance was August 14, 2026, which is 25 drawings ago. That gap ranks 5th longest in the pool, tied with 1 other number. The longest miss lasted 60 drawings, after April 20, 2021 and before it returned on November 19, 2021.
The appearance before the latest one was May 15, 2026, 26 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 16.9 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2024 had the most appearances, 10. 2021 and 2022 each had the fewest, 4. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 2 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 14, 2026: white balls 3, 23, 27, 46, 60, and Mega Ball 11.
When Mega Millions white ball 23 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 24 (8 times), white ball 43 (8 times), and white ball 3 (7 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 22 (5 times), Mega Ball 3 (4 times), and Mega Ball 18 (4 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 22 (74 appearances) and white ball 24 (73 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 174 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 23. The earliest of them is July 12, 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 25 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 14, 2026: white balls 3, 23, 27, 46, 60, and Mega Ball 11
- May 15, 2026: white balls 17, 23, 25, 52, 61, and Mega Ball 3
- November 18, 2025: white balls 5, 10, 23, 27, 30, and Mega Ball 10
- November 7, 2025: white balls 16, 21, 23, 48, 70, and Mega Ball 5
- October 10, 2025: white balls 3, 18, 23, 32, 56, and Mega Ball 8
- July 11, 2025: white balls 12, 23, 24, 31, 56, and Mega Ball 1
- June 17, 2025: white balls 16, 23, 39, 46, 55, and Mega Ball 12
- January 10, 2025: white balls 9, 23, 39, 65, 66, and Mega Ball 22, multiplier 3×
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Millions white ball 22
- Mega Millions white ball 24
- Mega Millions white ball 43