Number 14

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.58σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number

11.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

33longest completed wait · 34% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.58σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 159 draws · average wait 11.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 2 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 14 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest3 · chance 3.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 6.1
3rd smallest7 · chance 3.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

43 5 7 8 16 9

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 15 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 14 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 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-05	25	1st	14 33 41 42 45
2026-07-09	3	3rd	7 8 14 16 24
2026-06-29	9	2nd	9 14 15 41 42
2026-05-28	1	3rd	7 11 14 33

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: 14 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.