Number 26

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.06σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

21longest completed wait · 51% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 2 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 1.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.6
4th smallest5 · chance 5.5
5th smallest4 · chance 3.8
6th smallest2 · chance 0.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 10 22 23 29 3

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 43. 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
2026-10-05	21	5th	6 8 10 22 26 28
2026-07-23	1	3rd	12 14 26 31 33 42
2026-07-20	5	5th	5 10 14 21 26 29
2026-07-02	1	4th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.