Number 26

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

10times drawn · chance expected 18 −1.96σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 40% for any number

14.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

38longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −1.96σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 145 draws · average wait 14.3 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 8 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 0.2
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.3
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.1
4th smallest1 · chance 3.4
5th smallest3 · chance 1.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.3

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.

20 30 31 35 2 3

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 48 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 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
2026-09-12	19	5th	10 17 20 24 26 31
2026-07-08	11	5th	2 3 10 19 26 48
2026-05-30	4	3rd	7 19 26 31 39 47
2026-05-16	2	3rd	15

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.