Number 26

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 232 draws, 5 from 1–58.

18times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.47σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

12.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

47longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 232 draws · average wait 12.6 draws · longest completed wait 47 · waiting 1 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest1 · chance 1.6
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.7
3rd smallest12 · chance 6.8
4th smallest0 · chance 3.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

44 3 12 16 38 41

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 58. 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
2026-10-10	11	3rd	3 16 26 38 41
2026-09-29	31	2nd	9 26 27 38 58
2026-08-29	5	3rd	2 7 26 45 52
2026-08-24	4	3rd	7 19

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.