Number 26

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.08σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 56% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

20longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.08σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 5 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 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 3.7
4th smallest5 · chance 5.1
5th smallest3 · chance 3.1
6th smallest3 · chance 0.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 35 1 3 12 25

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 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 45. 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
2026-09-05	1	5th	3 6 20 25 26 32
2026-08-29	6	4th	7 13 16 26 36 37
2026-07-18	13	5th	2 3 12 23 26 35
2026-04-18	20	6th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.