Number 26

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

14times drawn · chance expected 10 +1.52σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

22longest completed wait · 86% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, +1.52σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 10 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 smallest2 · chance 1.0
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest6 · chance 6.0
4th smallest1 · chance 2.4

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.

40 9 33 41 2 4

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 17 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
2026-08-01	13	3rd	13 22 26 44
2026-05-02	8	1st	26 33 37 41
2026-03-07	1	2nd	24 26 33 35
2026-02-28	2	3rd	10 11 26 36

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.