Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool.
October 23, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Millions white ball 3 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 80 times. That is 12.6 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 3 ranks 4th.
The last appearance was October 23, 2026, which is 5 drawings ago. That gap ranks 42nd longest in the pool, tied with 3 other numbers. The longest miss lasted 59 drawings, after March 14, 2025 and before it returned on October 10, 2025.
The appearance before the latest one was September 11, 2026, 12 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 11.8 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2023 had the most appearances, 13. 2025 had the fewest, 3. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 2 times. 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.
When Mega Millions white ball 3 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 19 (10 times), white ball 18 (9 times), and white ball 5 (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 13 (8 times), Mega Ball 1 (7 times), and Mega Ball 9 (6 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 2 (67 appearances) and white ball 4 (69 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 213 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 3. The earliest of them is June 4, 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 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
- October 23, 2026: white balls 3, 7, 46, 49, 51, and Mega Ball 5
- September 11, 2026: white balls 3, 30, 33, 53, 62, and Mega Ball 22
- August 14, 2026: white balls 3, 23, 27, 46, 60, and Mega Ball 11
- May 22, 2026: white balls 3, 22, 34, 54, 61, and Mega Ball 8
- April 10, 2026: white balls 3, 18, 36, 42, 49, and Mega Ball 6
- February 17, 2026: white balls 3, 37, 44, 52, 63, and Mega Ball 14
- November 21, 2025: white balls 3, 4, 19, 31, 63, and Mega Ball 9
- October 10, 2025: white balls 3, 18, 23, 32, 56, and Mega Ball 8
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Millions white ball 2
- Mega Millions white ball 4
- Mega Millions white ball 19
- Mega Millions white ball 18