Number 26

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

12times drawn · chance expected 16 −1.11σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

13.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

25longest completed wait · 58% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −1.11σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws · average wait 13.8 draws · longest completed wait 25 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 0.5
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.7
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.7
4th smallest4 · chance 3.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 13 33 36 2 18

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 18 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
2026-10-12	7	2nd	8 26 33 36 38
2026-09-17	16	3rd	6 7 26 28 45
2026-07-23	18	2nd	8 26 33 39 42
2026-05-21	19	4th	2 10 13 26

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.