Number 14

In Megabucks Plus under the 5/41 + 1/6 · since Apr 2023 rules — 523 draws, 5 from 1–41.

74times drawn · chance expected 64 +1.37σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

33longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 74 times in 523 draws against 63.8 expected, +1.37σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 74 times in 523 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 6 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 smallest11 · chance 14.2
2nd smallest34 · chance 30.8
3rd smallest19 · chance 22.2
4th smallest10 · chance 6.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 2 29 13 6 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 41. 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
2026-09-28	8	2nd	10 14 22 28 32
2026-09-09	8	2nd	12 14 19 20 25
2026-08-22	6	4th	2 5 8 14 38
2026-08-08	3	3rd	9 12

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-09-22	9	2nd	2 14 15 32 33
2025-09-01	5	2nd	8 14 16 24 34
2025-08-20	1	4th	2 3 11 14 38
2025-08-18	27	1st	14 15 18 25 30
2025-06-16	9	2nd	8 14 25 36 38
2025-05-26	11	2nd	2 14 16 29 34
2025-04-30	9	3rd	4 9 14 21 29
2025-04-09	4	2nd	4 14 21 30 37
2025-03-31	25	3rd	1 13 14 21 29
2025-02-01	5	3rd	1 9 14 19 33
2025-01-20	7	3rd	5 9 14 25 37
2025-01-04	2	2nd	10 14 22 30 34
2024-12-30	7	3rd	6 9 14 28 39
2024-12-14	17	3rd	3 7 14 26 37
2024-11-04	8	3rd	2 13 14 32 39
2024-10-16	1	4th	2 5 7 14 21
2024-10-14	12	1st	14 15 22 33 40
2024-09-16	2	2nd	11 14 19 29 41
2024-09-11	2	3rd	12 13 14 15 22
2024-09-07	5	2nd	10 14 20 25 37
2024-08-26	3	3rd	4 10 14 30 38
2024-08-19	6	2nd	2 14 34 36 40
2024-08-05	1	2nd	1 14 23 27 29
2024-08-03	1	2nd	7 14 19 26 33
2024-07-31	9	3rd	1 10 14 16 22
2024-07-10	11	4th	6 8 12 14 34
2024-06-15	8	2nd	7 14 18 21 24
2024-05-27	1	1st	14 15 27 28 35
2024-05-25	2	2nd	11 14 23 34 35
2024-05-20	2	2nd	11 14 20 32 35
2024-05-15	12	2nd	13 14 23 32 38
2024-04-17	9	2nd	13 14 18 21 41
2024-03-27	7	3rd	3 13 14 28 39
2024-03-11	2	1st	14 18 25 30 38
2024-03-06	10	2nd	13 14 25 33 39
2024-02-12	1	3rd	7 13 14 22 31
2024-02-10	12	4th	1 5 6 14 32
2024-01-13	1	1st	14 17 23 26 37
2024-01-10	1	2nd	10 14 26 31 34
2024-01-08	2	2nd	10 14 25 29 30
2024-01-03	7	3rd	2 12 14 15 20
2023-12-18	16	1st	14 15 22 24 37
2023-11-11	9	2nd	6 14 25 28 35
2023-10-21	6	2nd	2 14 21 22 34
2023-10-07	4	3rd	1 8 14 26 28
2023-09-27	4	4th	2 3 7 14 32
2023-09-18	3	2nd	1 14 20 25 37
2023-09-09	3	2nd	8 14 17 23 25
2023-08-30	26	4th	2 4 6 14 29
2023-05-31	—	2nd	4 14 27 29 40