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 4 other numbers.
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 46 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 74 times. That is 6.6 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 46 ranks 12th, tied with 4 other numbers.
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 58 drawings, after December 16, 2025 and before it returned on July 10, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was August 14, 2026, 20 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 12.7 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2018 and 2023 each had the most appearances, 11. 2019 and 2025 each had the fewest, 6. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 5 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 October 23, 2026: white balls 3, 7, 46, 49, 51, and Mega Ball 5.
When Mega Millions white ball 46 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 20 (10 times), white ball 17 (9 times), and white ball 6 (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 16 (6 times), Mega Ball 18 (6 times), and Mega Ball 1 (5 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 45 (54 appearances) and white ball 47 (59 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 223 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 46. The earliest of them is May 31, 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
- August 14, 2026: white balls 3, 23, 27, 46, 60, and Mega Ball 11
- August 11, 2026: white balls 1, 20, 30, 46, 68, and Mega Ball 17
- July 10, 2026: white balls 2, 39, 44, 46, 56, and Mega Ball 23
- December 16, 2025: white balls 20, 24, 46, 59, 65, and Mega Ball 7
- November 11, 2025: white balls 10, 13, 40, 42, 46, and Mega Ball 1
- June 17, 2025: white balls 16, 23, 39, 46, 55, and Mega Ball 12
- May 6, 2025: white balls 16, 17, 43, 46, 58, and Mega Ball 16
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