Hot & cold numbers
Mega Millions hot & cold numbers
Hot: drawn most often
- 684×
- 23×
- 73×
- 153×
- 102×
Cold: drawn least often
- 520×
- 560×
- 590×
- 600×
- 610×
Across the last 15 draws. Hot and cold describe what has already happened.
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The most- and least-drawn Mega Millions numbers across the 15 most recent draws. “Hot” and “cold” describe what has already happened; they don’t make a number more or less likely next time.
A Mega Millions hot or cold run is measured over Tuesday and Friday draws only, so short streaks are normal. The lists below rank what has already been drawn most and least often lately, and the Mega Ball is tracked in its own 1 to 24 pool.
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.
The whole Mega Millions pool, hot to cold
Brighter balls came up more often in the last 15 draws; outlined ones were not drawn at all. The white ring marks the latest draw.
Mega Millions hot numbers: most frequent
Drawn most often recently
- #684×
- #23×
- #73×
- #153×
- #102×
- #132×
Mega Millions cold numbers: least frequent
Drawn least often (or not yet) recently
- #520×
- #560×
- #590×
- #600×
- #610×
- #690×
Mega Ball: its own pool
Drawn from a second machine, so the Mega Ball is ranked separately from the main numbers.
Hot: most frequent
- Mega Ball 33×
- Mega Ball 82×
- Mega Ball 172×
- Mega Ball 222×
- Mega Ball 11×
- Mega Ball 51×
Cold: least frequent
- 150×
- 180×
- 190×
- 200×
- 210×
- 240×
Why the leaders keep changing
Randomness is streaky. In any short window some numbers cluster and others go quiet purely by chance, the same reason a fair coin throws runs of heads. Watch this page across a few weeks and the Mega Millions leaderboard reshuffles without any number earning its place.
A hot number is not more likely on Tuesday or Friday, and a cold one is not owed a turn. Certified draw equipment has no memory, so the most-drawn and least-drawn numbers carry identical chances in the next draw.
The Mega Ball keeps its own list
The Mega Ball adds a second, smaller pool, 1 to 24, with its own hot and cold list. With one ball drawn from 24 against five from 70, a Mega Ball a few appearances above its share reads far more dramatically than the same surplus on the white side.
What hot and cold data is good for
It is a structured read of the record: the hot list shows which balls have come up most in recent draws, the cold list which ones those draws have passed over, and following both from week to week shows how fast a leaderboard turns over. As the window grows, the two lists even out, which is the clearest possible demonstration that the draw plays fair. Every game sits side by side on the hot and cold table.
Questions people ask
- Do cold Mega Millions numbers become more likely over time?
- No. Each draw is independent of the ones before it, so a number drawn less often recently is not more likely to appear next. Cold simply means it has shown up less across the recent window.
- What counts as a hot Mega Millions number?
- A hot number is one that has appeared more often than others across the recent draws listed here. It describes past frequency only and does not make any number more likely in the next draw.
- Does the Mega Ball have its own hot and cold numbers?
- Yes. The Mega Ball is drawn from a separate 1 to 24 pool with its own frequency, so it keeps its own hot and cold list. The same rule applies there: past frequency does not change the next draw.
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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