Number 26

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.81σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

16longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, +0.81σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 7 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 0.3
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.1
3rd smallest7 · chance 5.0
4th smallest3 · chance 5.4
5th smallest3 · chance 2.7
6th smallest1 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 36 37 47 7 8

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers 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 49. 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
2026-09-16	3	4th	7 13 15 26 37 40
2026-09-05	2	6th	3 4 16 21 23 26
2026-08-29	4	3rd	1 7 26 31 37 46
2026-08-15	6	3rd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.