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Québec Max · every number

26

Number 26

In Québec Max under the 7/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 49 draws, 7 from 1–52.

7/52 · since Apr 20267/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026
7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.17σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 49% for any number
6.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4
17longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long
26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

26

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 49 draws · average wait 6.3 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 6 draws now

5 draws: 2026-05-08 to 2026-05-2617 draws: 2026-05-26 to 2026-07-246 draws: 2026-07-24 to 2026-08-143 draws: 2026-08-14 to 2026-08-256 draws: 2026-08-25 to 2026-09-151 draws: 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-18Still waiting — at least 6 draws since 2026-09-182026-05-082026-05-262026-07-242026-08-142026-08-252026-09-152026-09-182026-04-242026-10-09

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 1 time2 draws: 0 times3 draws: 1 time4 draws: 0 times5 draws: 1 time6 draws: 2 times7 draws: 0 times8 draws: 0 times9 draws: 0 times10 draws: 0 times11 draws: 0 times12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 0 times16 draws: 0 times17 draws: 1 time18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

Where it lands in a sorted draw

Sort a draw and 26 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 smallest
0 · chance 0.1
  • 2nd smallest0 · chance 0.6
  • 3rd smallest3 · chance 1.7
  • 4th smallest2 · chance 2.3
  • 5th smallest2 · chance 1.6
  • 6th smallest0 · chance 0.5
  • 7th smallest0 · chance 0.1

    • Every position’s lane →

    The company it keeps

    Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

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    Never drawn alongside 19 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 52. 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

    DateWaitPositionThe draw
    2026-09-1814th491126374050
    2026-09-1565th6182123263334
    2026-08-2533rd3152629343741
    2026-08-1463rd11192637414352
    2026-07-24174th14192426294849
    2026-05-2655th12192125263946
    2026-05-08—3rd232632354451
    ← number 25Every numbernumber 27 →
    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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.