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 18, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Millions white ball 56 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 68 times. That is within 5 percent of 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 56 ranks 31st, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 18, 2026, which is 15 drawings ago. That gap ranks 18th longest in the pool, tied with 1 other number. The longest miss lasted 68 drawings, after August 4, 2023 and before it returned on April 2, 2024.
The appearance before the latest one was July 14, 2026, 19 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 13.2 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2025 had the most appearances, 12. 2023 had the fewest, 1. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 8 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 18, 2026: white balls 4, 9, 24, 56, 68, and Mega Ball 1.
When Mega Millions white ball 56 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 53 (8 times), white ball 66 (8 times), and white ball 10 (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 4 (6 times), Mega Ball 1 (5 times), and Mega Ball 13 (5 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 55 (61 appearances) and white ball 57 (66 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 173 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 56. The earliest of them is June 24, 2005. 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 15 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 18, 2026: white balls 4, 9, 24, 56, 68, and Mega Ball 1
- July 14, 2026: white balls 2, 4, 10, 48, 56, and Mega Ball 22
- July 10, 2026: white balls 2, 39, 44, 46, 56, and Mega Ball 23
- May 19, 2026: white balls 10, 26, 34, 56, 64, and Mega Ball 6
- April 21, 2026: white balls 1, 36, 43, 56, 58, and Mega Ball 7
- January 27, 2026: white balls 4, 20, 38, 56, 66, and Mega Ball 5
- January 20, 2026: white balls 8, 47, 50, 56, 70, and Mega Ball 12
- January 13, 2026: white balls 16, 40, 56, 64, 66, and Mega Ball 4
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