Number 14

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.79σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

26longest completed wait · 67% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, +0.79σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 139 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 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 smallest4 · chance 4.6
2nd smallest7 · chance 7.4
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.1
4th smallest2 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 5 39 3 15 19

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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
2026-10-11	12	3rd	2 5 14 36 41
2026-09-29	4	1st	14 21 29 43 49
2026-09-25	10	4th	1 3 5 14 15
2026-09-15	1	2nd	3 14

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.