Mega Millions statistics
Computed from 919 draws between Oct 31, 2017 and Aug 11, 2026. Mega Millions has drawn its five main numbers from a pool of 70 since 31 October 2017, so main-number statistics use everything from that date. The Mega Ball pool shrank from 25 to 24 on 8 April 2025, so bonus-ball statistics start there instead — a much shorter window, and thin enough that you should read those frequencies with scepticism.
Read this before you read the charts
If Mega Millions were perfectly even, every number would have come up about 66 times. They have not, and the gaps below are real. But they are the size you would expect from chance alone: the most extreme number in this archive sits just 2.5 standard deviations from the average, which is unremarkable across 70 numbers.
In other words, these charts describe what has happened. They do not predict what will. A number drawn 40 times and a number drawn 25 times have exactly the same chance in the next draw.
How often each number has been drawn
Green bars are above the expected count of 66, grey are below. Hover a bar for the exact figure.
Mega Ball frequency
Based on 143 draws since the bonus pool last changed — a small sample, so expect these bars to move around a lot.
Drawn most often
Highest count in the archive. Not 'lucky' — just the top of a normal spread.
- 1085 times
- 1783 times
- 3180 times
- 377 times
- 1477 times
- 4277 times
Drawn least often
Lowest count. Equally not 'unlucky', and no more likely to correct itself.
- 5151 times
- 6752 times
- 6553 times
- 4553 times
- 2354 times
- 5055 times
Longest absent
Draws since last seen. Popularly called 'overdue'; statistically it means nothing.
- 847 draws
- 645 draws
- 1143 draws
- 2841 draws
- 6936 draws
- 733 draws
Odd and even split
How the 5 numbers have divided between odd and even.
- 2 odd / 3 even33.2%
- 3 odd / 2 even30.6%
- 1 odd / 4 even15.9%
- 4 odd / 1 even14.0%
- 0 odd / 5 even4.0%
- 5 odd / 0 even2.3%
Low and high split
Split at the midpoint of the 1–70 pool.
- 3 low / 2 high34.2%
- 2 low / 3 high30.4%
- 4 low / 1 high15.8%
- 1 low / 4 high14.6%
- 5 low / 0 high3.3%
- 0 low / 5 high1.8%
Draw totals
Adding the 5 numbers together, half of all draws land between 146 and 205, with a median of 173. The Balanced and Contrarian generators aim between 118 and 229, which covers roughly eight draws in ten.
- Lowest ever
- 48
- Median
- 173
- Average
- 174
- Highest ever
- 326
Consecutive numbers
25.8% of draws contained at least one consecutive pair, such as 23 and 24. People tend to avoid picking them, which makes them mildly useful for reducing how many ways a prize gets split.
All-calendar draws
2.3% of draws had every number at 31 or below — the range covered by birthdays. Those are the draws with the most shared jackpots, because so many tickets are built from dates.
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