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 9 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 58 times. That is 9.4 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 9 ranks 61st, 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 52 drawings, after January 19, 2024 and before it returned on July 23, 2024.
The appearance before the latest one was July 3, 2026, 22 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 15.4 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
Among complete calendar years in this set (2018–2025), 2020 had the most appearances, 10. 2024 had the fewest, 3. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 6 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 9 was drawn, the other white balls beside it most often were white ball 39 (9 times), white ball 14 (7 times), and white ball 17 (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 10 (5 times), Mega Ball 22 (5 times), and Mega Ball 24 (5 times).
The neighboring white balls in this same set: white ball 8 (74 appearances) and white ball 10 (88 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 196 appearances of Mega Millions white ball 9. The earliest of them is June 11, 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 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 3, 2026: white balls 5, 9, 29, 47, 57, and Mega Ball 16
- June 12, 2026: white balls 9, 17, 24, 39, 51, and Mega Ball 3
- June 9, 2026: white balls 9, 30, 36, 38, 40, and Mega Ball 3
- January 6, 2026: white balls 9, 39, 47, 58, 68, and Mega Ball 24
- December 26, 2025: white balls 9, 19, 31, 63, 64, and Mega Ball 7
- October 17, 2025: white balls 9, 21, 27, 48, 56, and Mega Ball 10
- May 9, 2025: white balls 9, 10, 12, 48, 60, and Mega Ball 16
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Millions white ball 8
- Mega Millions white ball 10
- Mega Millions white ball 39
- Mega Millions white ball 14