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 1 other number.
September 15, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Millions white ball 36 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 57 times. That is 10.4 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 36 ranks 63rd, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 15, 2026, which is 16 drawings ago. That gap ranks 16th longest in the pool, tied with 1 other number. The longest miss lasted 50 drawings, after May 22, 2018 and before it returned on November 16, 2018.
The appearance before the latest one was July 7, 2026, 20 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 16.4 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2021 and 2022 each had the most appearances, 9. 2018 and 2025 each had the fewest, 2. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 10 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 September 15, 2026: white balls 27, 36, 43, 57, 58, and Mega Ball 16.
When Mega Millions white ball 36 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 16 (6 times), white ball 30 (6 times), and white ball 43 (6 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 16 (8 times), Mega Ball 22 (7 times), and Mega Ball 7 (4 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 35 (57 appearances) and white ball 37 (65 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 199 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 36. The earliest of them is September 3, 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 16 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
- September 15, 2026: white balls 27, 36, 43, 57, 58, and Mega Ball 16
- July 7, 2026: white balls 2, 31, 35, 36, 63, and Mega Ball 12
- June 9, 2026: white balls 9, 30, 36, 38, 40, and Mega Ball 3
- April 28, 2026: white balls 14, 36, 41, 47, 66, and Mega Ball 15
- April 21, 2026: white balls 1, 36, 43, 56, 58, and Mega Ball 7
- April 10, 2026: white balls 3, 18, 36, 42, 49, and Mega Ball 6
- March 13, 2026: white balls 6, 19, 36, 40, 55, and Mega Ball 9
- February 10, 2026: white balls 5, 25, 30, 36, 68, and Mega Ball 6
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
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- Mega Millions white ball 37
- Mega Millions white ball 16
- Mega Millions white ball 30