Number 26

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 443 draws, 7 from 1–35.

78times drawn · chance expected 89 −1.26σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

23longest completed wait · 43% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −1.26σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 8 draws now

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 26 has a favourite seat — chance gives a large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.2
4th smallest11 · chance 11.2
5th smallest28 · chance 26.4
6th smallest27 · chance 27.7
7th smallest11 · chance 10.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 1 15 35 7 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 26 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 35. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 26 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-13	1	5th	6 11 15 17 26 27 35
2026-08-06	1	5th	9 13 15 16 26 30 35
2026-07-30	5	4th	18 20 22 26 31 34 35

What this cannot tell you

Nothing here predicts the next draw. A number’s history is a record of a fair machine’s past, and the machine keeps none of it: 26 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-01-25	14	6th	1 4 6 9 21 26 27
2023-10-19	3	7th	1 3 4 6 7 24 26
2023-09-28	6	5th	2 3 14 15 26 27 28
2023-08-17	21	6th	10 12 17 21 24 26 30
2023-03-23	4	7th	4 5 7 18 19 25 26
2023-02-23	8	6th	3 5 6 11 24 26 30
2022-12-29	2	7th	4 6 9 22 23 24 26
2022-12-15	12	6th	1 7 19 21 22 26 34
2022-09-22	3	5th	10 15 21 24 26 28 35
2022-09-01	6	6th	3 4 10 12 15 26 34
2022-07-21	1	7th	2 7 8 9 24 25 26
2022-07-14	10	5th	1 6 17 20 26 33 35
2022-05-05	5	5th	2 12 16 17 26 30 35
2022-03-31	7	4th	6 10 13 26 27 28 34
2022-02-10	1	5th	3 5 16 19 26 31 32
2022-02-03	2	6th	11 16 18 21 22 26 31
2022-01-20	3	4th	11 14 25 26 31 34 35
2021-12-30	4	5th	16 18 19 23 26 32 35
2021-12-02	5	4th	4 5 19 26 27 30 33
2021-10-28	10	6th	9 10 14 15 23 26 29
2021-08-19	1	6th	2 7 8 9 10 26 30
2021-08-12	2	7th	4 10 17 19 21 23 26
2021-07-29	2	5th	4 7 22 23 26 33 35
2021-07-15	4	6th	3 11 16 17 25 26 32
2021-06-17	8	6th	4 10 12 13 20 26 34
2021-04-22	3	5th	10 17 19 21 26 31 35
2021-04-01	3	6th	1 7 13 23 25 26 27
2021-03-11	4	7th	1 8 14 17 19 21 26
2021-02-11	4	5th	1 7 16 20 26 29 32
2021-01-14	8	5th	1 2 17 20 26 27 31
2020-11-19	7	5th	1 7 12 13 26 30 34
2020-10-01	11	6th	11 15 16 18 22 26 30
2020-07-16	1	5th	11 14 18 23 26 32 34
2020-07-09	1	3rd	2 21 26 28 31 32 33
2020-07-02	3	7th	1 6 10 15 16 21 26
2020-06-11	5	5th	1 14 17 22 26 28 33
2020-05-07	5	5th	9 12 16 23 26 29 35
2020-04-02	3	7th	1 3 14 17 19 22 26
2020-03-12	3	5th	10 17 19 20 26 28 33
2020-02-20	2	6th	1 3 12 13 21 26 31
2020-02-06	6	6th	1 2 3 11 15 26 35
2019-12-26	6	6th	7 9 12 17 23 26 27
2019-11-14	7	5th	8 10 20 24 26 28 32
2019-09-26	1	4th	9 22 25 26 27 30 33
2019-09-19	4	6th	4 5 8 17 18 26 31
2019-08-22	15	6th	3 7 10 11 17 26 35
2019-05-09	6	6th	5 15 17 18 19 26 29
2019-03-28	10	4th	4 5 25 26 27 30 34
2019-01-17	5	6th	4 11 18 20 22 26 33
2018-12-13	1	5th	7 8 15 24 26 28 35
2018-12-06	6	6th	3 5 6 14 20 26 33
2018-10-25	23	5th	9 11 13 25 26 28 29
2018-05-17	1	5th	3 9 16 25 26 31 34
2018-05-10	—	5th	6 14 15 24 26 32 35