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Mega Millions number frequency

Most drawn in the last 15 draws

  • 684×
  • 23×
  • 73×
  • 153×
  • 102×

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How often each number has appeared across the 15 most recent Mega Millions draws, drawn Tuesday & Friday. Frequency is a look back at what has already been drawn; every future draw is independent.

Mega Millions pairs five main numbers from 1 to 70 with a Mega Ball from its own 1 to 24 pool, and it draws twice a week. With a large pool, most numbers appear only a few times in a recent window, so the order on this page reads best as a current snapshot.

Latest results as of Nov 10, 2026. Updated daily.

Results as published by the Ohio Lottery Commission and the Multi-State Lottery Association. Odds Engine is independent and does not represent any lottery or government entity.

Mega Millions statistics

Across the 15 most recent Mega Millions draws, from Sep 22, 2026 to Nov 10, 2026, the number drawn most often was 68: 4 times, most recently on Oct 30, 2026. 19 of the 70 numbers were not drawn at all in that window. The Mega Ball, drawn from its own 1 to 24 pool, came up as 3 most often: 3 times in 15 draws.

All 70 numbers, lit by count

The brighter the ball, the more often it came up in the last 15 draws. The white ring marks the latest draw.

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Mega Millions winning numbers frequency, ranked

  1. 68
    4×
  2. 2
    3×
  3. 7
    3×
  4. 15
    3×
  5. 10
    2×
  6. 13
    2×
  7. 16
    2×
  8. 25
    2×
  9. 26
    2×
  10. 27
    2×
  11. 31
    2×
  12. 37
    2×
  13. 40
    2×
  14. 41
    2×
  15. 49
    2×
  16. 51
    2×
  17. 64
    2×
  18. 67
    2×
  19. 70
    2×
  20. 3
    1×
  21. 4
    1×
  22. 5
    1×
  23. 6
    1×
  24. 11
    1×
  25. 12
    1×
  26. 14
    1×
  27. 18
    1×
  28. 19
    1×
  29. 21
    1×
  30. 24
    1×
  31. 28
    1×
  32. 30
    1×
  33. 32
    1×
  34. 33
    1×
  35. 34
    1×
  36. 35
    1×
  37. 38
    1×
  38. 42
    1×
  39. 44
    1×
  40. 45
    1×
  41. 46
    1×
  42. 48
    1×
  43. 53
    1×
  44. 54
    1×
  45. 55
    1×
  46. 57
    1×
  47. 58
    1×
  48. 62
    1×
  49. 63
    1×
  50. 65
    1×
  51. 66
    1×
  52. 1
    0×
  53. 8
    0×
  54. 9
    0×
  55. 17
    0×
  56. 20
    0×
  57. 22
    0×
  58. 23
    0×
  59. 29
    0×
  60. 36
    0×
  61. 39
    0×
  62. 43
    0×
  63. 47
    0×
  64. 50
    0×
  65. 52
    0×
  66. 56
    0×
  67. 59
    0×
  68. 60
    0×
  69. 61
    0×
  70. 69
    0×

Based on the 15 most recent published draws. The full multi-year frequency, number-pair patterns and historic-payout analysis are in the app.

Mega Ball: counted in its own pool

The Mega Ball comes out of a second machine with its own 24-number range, so it is tallied separately from the main numbers rather than mixed into them.

  1. 3
    3×
  2. 8
    2×
  3. 17
    2×
  4. 22
    2×
  5. 1
    1×
  6. 5
    1×
  7. 10
    1×
  8. 11
    1×
  9. 16
    1×
  10. 23
    1×
  11. 2
    0×
  12. 4
    0×
  13. 6
    0×
  14. 7
    0×
  15. 9
    0×
  16. 12
    0×
  17. 13
    0×
  18. 14
    0×
  19. 15
    0×
  20. 18
    0×
  21. 19
    0×
  22. 20
    0×
  23. 21
    0×
  24. 24
    0×

What the chart is actually counting

A frequency chart looks like a ranking, so the instinct is to read it as a leaderboard. But every bar is measured against a number that is not zero. Each draw hands out five white-ball slots across a 70-number pool, so a number's fair share is one appearance in every 14 draws: about one appearance each over the recent window on this page, and about 21 over 300 draws. The chart shows how far each number landed from that line.

Is a big count a big deal?

Over 300 draws, against a share of about 21, a count of 30 sits about 40 percent above and a count of 12 about 44 percent below. Put that way it sounds dramatic. In the language the arithmetic prefers, both land about two standard deviations from the middle, and in a field of 70 numbers you would expect about three to finish that far out.

That is the quietly satisfying thing about a frequency chart: the shape of the spread is itself a measurement. A fair draw does not deal every number an identical hand. It produces leaders and laggards in about the proportion the math says it should.

Why a long Mega Ball count leaves some draws out

On April 5, 2025 the Mega Ball pool shrank from 1 to 25 down to 1 to 24. A window that reaches back past that date holds a few draws whose Mega Ball no longer exists in today's pool, so those draws belong to none of the 24 numbers being ranked.

Leave them out and the arithmetic stays honest. Six such draws in a 300-draw window leave 294 Mega Ball slots across 24 numbers, a fair share of 12.25 rather than 12.5. That is close enough to look harmless and wrong for a reason worth naming: a frequency chart is a ratio, so one that divides by the wrong number is slightly wrong in every row, most of all in the extremes people screenshot. The recent window on this page sits wholly after the change, so every draw in it counts.

Frequency, hot and cold, and longest gap

Three views of one dataset answer genuinely different questions, so the least-drawn number of a window is often not the one carrying the longest gap.

  • Frequency is the raw count over the window you choose. Widen the window and the bars even out; narrow it and they scatter.
  • Hot and cold is that same count read as a leaderboard over a recent stretch, the view on the Mega Millions hot and cold page.
  • Longest gap ignores counts altogether and asks when a number was last seen.

Questions people ask

What are the most common Mega Millions numbers?
This page orders each main number by recent appearance count across the latest published Mega Millions draws. With a 1 to 70 main pool and two draws a week, the counts read best as a current sample rather than a fixed order.
Does this frequency include the Mega Ball?
The main ranking covers the five main numbers from 1 to 70. The Mega Ball is drawn from a separate 1 to 24 pool, so it is counted on its own rather than mixed into the main-number frequency.
How is the Mega Millions winning numbers frequency counted?
Each published draw adds its five main winning numbers to the count, once each, so every draw hands out five slots across the 70 main numbers. That makes a fair share one appearance for every 14 draws counted, and a count above or below that line is what hot and cold describe. The Mega Ball is counted separately, against its own 1 to 24 pool.
Did the Mega Ball pool change?
Yes. On April 5, 2025 it went from 1 to 25 down to 1 to 24, so a Mega Ball count that reaches back past that date leaves out the draws that produced a 25, a number today's pool no longer holds. The recent window on this page sits wholly after the change, so every draw in it counts.

On this day in history

On November 12 (a formal proposal for the World Wide Web was published in 1990), across the 7 times Mega Millions has drawn on this date, the numbers that come up most often are 30, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, and 42.

  • 30, drawn 3 times
  • 28, drawn 2 times
  • 31, drawn 2 times
  • 32, drawn 2 times
  • 33, drawn 2 times
  • 35, drawn 2 times
  • 42, drawn 2 times

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