Number 26

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 641 draws, 5 from 1–34.

91times drawn · chance expected 94 −0.36σ

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

7.1average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

39longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 91 times in 641 draws against 94.3 expected, −0.36σ. 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 91 times in 641 draws · average wait 7.1 draws · longest completed wait 39 · 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.2
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest22 · chance 18.7
4th smallest45 · chance 40.9
5th smallest21 · chance 28.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 32 20 11 30 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 34. 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	7	4th	11 15 19 26 27
2026-10-03	15	3rd	12 21 26 30 33
2026-09-18	9	3rd	3 20 26 30 33
2026-09-09	3	5th	7 16 22 24

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-09	1	4th	1 3 18 26 27
2026-05-08	7	4th	9 19 22 26 31
2026-05-01	1	4th	5 17 25 26 34
2026-04-30	10	5th	5 11 19 23 26
2026-04-20	7	4th	7 9 24 26 32
2026-04-13	2	3rd	24 25 26 27 33
2026-04-11	3	4th	1 13 17 26 27
2026-04-08	1	4th	5 15 24 26 33
2026-04-07	1	4th	3 4 12 26 32
2026-04-06	1	3rd	3 22 26 28 34
2026-04-05	10	4th	15 18 23 26 32
2026-03-26	8	2nd	12 26 27 29 30
2026-03-18	1	4th	1 7 12 26 31
2026-03-17	6	3rd	1 23 26 29 34
2026-03-11	39	4th	3 11 19 26 34
2026-01-31	6	5th	2 9 11 14 26
2026-01-25	22	3rd	21 23 26 29 30
2026-01-03	1	4th	2 7 18 26 28
2026-01-02	1	3rd	4 14 26 28 32
2026-01-01	11	4th	3 12 17 26 32
2025-12-21	15	5th	1 10 20 23 26
2025-12-06	9	4th	11 18 20 26 32
2025-11-27	9	5th	5 12 15 23 26
2025-11-18	9	5th	1 15 21 22 26
2025-11-09	7	4th	20 21 24 26 27
2025-11-02	3	4th	3 11 20 26 32
2025-10-30	4	4th	6 15 18 26 30
2025-10-26	15	3rd	15 20 26 27 30
2025-10-11	15	4th	12 14 15 26 27
2025-09-26	4	4th	6 22 24 26 34
2025-09-22	8	3rd	7 17 26 30 33
2025-09-14	7	3rd	13 20 26 31 34
2025-09-07	2	3rd	10 16 26 29 32
2025-09-05	13	3rd	17 23 26 29 31
2025-08-23	2	4th	2 3 15 26 32
2025-08-21	1	5th	11 12 17 20 26
2025-08-20	11	5th	9 11 16 19 26
2025-08-09	3	3rd	16 21 26 28 34
2025-08-06	3	4th	4 9 12 26 32
2025-08-03	2	4th	5 13 14 26 28
2025-08-01	6	2nd	5 26 30 31 32
2025-07-26	1	4th	9 20 22 26 29
2025-07-25	1	5th	1 14 19 22 26
2025-07-24	10	4th	4 9 25 26 28
2025-07-14	13	4th	1 18 20 26 29
2025-07-01	7	3rd	16 24 26 27 29
2025-06-24	4	5th	4 15 19 25 26
2025-06-20	1	3rd	4 20 26 30 33
2025-06-19	15	3rd	23 24 26 31 32
2025-06-04	7	4th	1 5 11 26 32
2025-05-28	4	4th	5 8 21 26 30
2025-05-24	6	5th	7 11 15 17 26
2025-05-18	8	5th	1 8 15 22 26
2025-05-10	8	3rd	19 24 26 29 34
2025-05-02	8	4th	4 9 13 26 32
2025-04-24	4	4th	11 22 24 26 30
2025-04-20	3	2nd	4 26 29 30 34
2025-04-17	13	3rd	2 15 26 31 33
2025-04-04	12	4th	2 9 23 26 33
2025-03-23	2	3rd	13 17 26 32 34
2025-03-21	2	4th	2 14 22 26 34
2025-03-19	4	4th	8 21 24 26 34
2025-03-15	10	5th	2 8 14 25 26
2025-03-05	16	4th	2 11 17 26 33
2025-02-17	4	4th	4 15 22 26 32
2025-02-13	32	4th	2 15 16 26 28
2025-01-12	—	4th	15 20 25 26 33