Number 14

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

18times drawn · chance expected 18 +0.06σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

27longest completed wait · 44% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 13 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 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 smallest5 · chance 3.4
2nd smallest9 · chance 7.2
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.4
4th smallest0 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

46 17 39 44 22 32

Never drawn alongside 3 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 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
2026-08-26	5	2nd	3 14 16 20 36 46
2026-08-08	3	2nd	10 14 22 33 46 47
2026-07-29	1	1st	14 17 31 39 44 46
2026-07-25	3	3rd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.