Number 26

In Match 5 under the 5/35 · since Apr 2021 rules — 1,497 draws, 5 from 1–35.

208times drawn · chance expected 214 −0.43σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 63% for any number

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

31longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 208 times in 1,497 draws against 213.9 expected, −0.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 208 times in 1,497 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 4 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 0.6
2nd smallest12 · chance 9.4
3rd smallest42 · chance 48.4
4th smallest93 · chance 92.8
5th smallest61 · chance 56.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 24.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 20 15 9 11 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 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 35. 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
2026-10-07	4	4th	9 12 19 26 32
2026-10-03	2	4th	16 18 25 26 31
2026-10-01	2	3rd	5 25 26 29 35
2026-09-29	7	4th	11 18 25 26

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 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-31	5	4th	5 14 17 26 30
2026-05-26	10	3rd	9 20 26 32 35
2026-05-16	6	4th	8 16 18 26 31
2026-05-10	13	4th	1 13 21 26 28
2026-04-27	7	3rd	11 15 26 29 33
2026-04-20	9	3rd	13 17 26 31 33
2026-04-11	3	3rd	8 21 26 27 32
2026-04-08	23	3rd	1 12 26 28 29
2026-03-16	1	4th	6 10 21 26 27
2026-03-15	6	4th	3 8 24 26 31
2026-03-09	9	5th	4 8 10 25 26
2026-02-28	2	4th	9 19 21 26 34
2026-02-26	8	5th	2 3 4 7 26
2026-02-18	9	5th	1 5 11 16 26
2026-02-09	20	4th	12 19 25 26 30
2026-01-20	2	5th	4 13 15 16 26
2026-01-18	6	3rd	6 23 26 27 33
2026-01-12	15	4th	2 4 13 26 28
2025-12-28	18	5th	1 2 19 24 26
2025-12-10	17	5th	3 6 14 20 26
2025-11-23	1	5th	6 13 19 22 26
2025-11-22	24	4th	1 9 24 26 28
2025-10-29	18	3rd	16 21 26 28 29
2025-10-11	5	4th	4 18 24 26 32
2025-10-06	8	5th	3 8 10 16 26
2025-09-28	1	4th	2 24 25 26 33
2025-09-27	6	4th	9 15 18 26 29
2025-09-21	14	4th	4 15 25 26 30
2025-09-07	17	2nd	22 26 28 32 34
2025-08-21	12	5th	1 14 18 23 26
2025-08-09	21	4th	9 18 25 26 30
2025-07-19	1	4th	1 14 20 26 27
2025-07-18	2	5th	5 11 19 25 26
2025-07-16	7	3rd	15 20 26 27 35
2025-07-09	16	4th	7 8 11 26 33
2025-06-23	7	4th	3 9 15 26 28
2025-06-16	9	4th	20 21 24 26 32
2025-06-07	1	4th	2 7 20 26 30
2025-06-06	20	5th	11 12 16 22 26
2025-05-17	15	2nd	21 26 27 29 35
2025-05-02	6	5th	4 11 16 17 26
2025-04-26	5	4th	5 14 21 26 31
2025-04-21	4	2nd	20 26 27 29 33
2025-04-17	8	4th	2 4 25 26 34
2025-04-09	4	4th	3 12 25 26 30
2025-04-05	5	4th	11 13 21 26 31
2025-03-31	1	4th	7 9 20 26 29
2025-03-30	1	4th	1 18 25 26 34
2025-03-29	3	5th	3 8 10 17 26
2025-03-26	5	4th	2 4 25 26 27
2025-03-21	31	5th	7 13 16 24 26
2025-02-18	4	5th	9 15 16 21 26
2025-02-14	5	5th	8 14 20 25 26
2025-02-09	10	5th	3 13 23 24 26
2025-01-30	6	4th	5 9 25 26 28
2025-01-24	7	4th	8 10 16 26 27
2025-01-17	3	5th	1 6 17 24 26
2025-01-14	2	3rd	8 19 26 28 34
2025-01-12	4	5th	4 11 13 20 26
2025-01-08	2	4th	5 9 13 26 34
2025-01-06	12	5th	2 5 6 8 26
2024-12-25	20	4th	4 14 24 26 30
2024-12-05	17	3rd	12 17 26 32 35
2024-11-18	2	4th	4 5 17 26 34
2024-11-16	4	4th	10 11 19 26 35
2024-11-12	6	5th	13 14 15 25 26
2024-11-06	8	3rd	13 16 26 30 35
2024-10-29	4	4th	1 7 22 26 35
2024-10-25	4	5th	4 6 17 18 26
2024-10-21	3	4th	15 16 23 26 30
2024-10-18	1	3rd	6 11 26 29 34
2024-10-17	1	3rd	2 14 26 31 32
2024-10-16	3	4th	1 7 22 26 33
2024-10-13	2	4th	7 14 21 26 28
2024-10-11	1	4th	1 3 21 26 34
2024-10-10	3	4th	4 17 22 26 34
2024-10-07	3	3rd	3 23 26 30 31
2024-10-04	3	3rd	13 17 26 32 33
2024-10-01	5	4th	3 14 17 26 33
2024-09-26	17	2nd	21 26 28 31 34
2024-09-09	5	4th	3 14 16 26 31
2024-09-04	20	4th	2 8 14 26 31
2024-08-15	3	3rd	4 15 26 28 35
2024-08-12	5	5th	15 20 22 25 26
2024-08-07	5	4th	2 15 17 26 32
2024-08-02	17	2nd	15 26 29 30 33
2024-07-16	25	3rd	2 6 26 32 34
2024-06-21	4	4th	9 11 13 26 27
2024-06-17	1	4th	17 18 20 26 32
2024-06-16	2	2nd	23 26 27 28 32
2024-06-14	4	4th	11 14 21 26 32
2024-06-10	26	4th	5 8 24 26 28
2024-05-15	3	4th	1 5 7 26 29
2024-05-12	1	4th	5 14 20 26 27
2024-05-11	3	4th	1 3 24 26 29
2024-05-08	7	4th	18 19 21 26 28
2024-05-01	1	4th	6 21 22 26 35
2024-04-30	1	3rd	1 2 26 27 29
2024-04-29	1	4th	11 15 18 26 31
2024-04-28	6	5th	1 6 11 20 26
2024-04-22	7	5th	5 13 15 19 26
2024-04-15	6	5th	9 11 14 20 26
2024-04-09	17	2nd	2 26 29 30 34
2024-03-23	2	5th	5 13 16 18 26
2024-03-21	2	5th	1 5 21 24 26
2024-03-19	17	5th	6 7 19 20 26
2024-03-02	7	4th	1 17 20 26 29
2024-02-24	1	3rd	2 20 26 31 34
2024-02-23	1	3rd	2 23 26 29 35
2024-02-22	1	4th	11 14 20 26 32
2024-02-21	9	4th	6 12 19 26 27
2024-02-12	5	4th	16 19 22 26 29
2024-02-07	1	3rd	13 18 26 28 29
2024-02-06	6	3rd	7 9 26 31 35
2024-01-31	1	4th	8 10 17 26 27
2024-01-30	1	5th	5 7 9 11 26
2024-01-29	2	4th	1 15 25 26 32
2024-01-27	2	4th	21 22 23 26 30
2024-01-25	9	3rd	4 19 26 28 33
2024-01-16	6	5th	1 7 16 22 26
2024-01-10	23	5th	2 6 18 22 26
2023-12-18	12	5th	7 18 23 25 26
2023-12-06	31	3rd	4 17 26 28 31
2023-11-05	2	4th	1 9 24 26 29
2023-11-03	9	3rd	17 18 26 29 34
2023-10-25	7	5th	14 15 21 24 26
2023-10-18	1	4th	2 11 12 26 31
2023-10-17	5	4th	1 4 23 26 28
2023-10-12	3	5th	1 5 12 25 26
2023-10-09	4	2nd	2 26 30 31 32
2023-10-05	7	3rd	9 21 26 32 33
2023-09-28	10	4th	6 18 20 26 27
2023-09-18	11	3rd	7 11 26 28 34
2023-09-05	4	5th	6 11 20 25 26
2023-08-26	3	5th	2 7 20 22 26
2023-08-19	2	3rd	9 12 26 32 33
2023-08-15	3	2nd	3 26 29 30 31
2023-08-08	5	5th	8 15 17 22 26
2023-07-27	5	3rd	20 25 26 33 34
2023-07-15	3	5th	2 15 19 25 26
2023-07-08	7	5th	9 10 16 19 26
2023-06-22	3	4th	4 22 23 26 34
2023-06-15	7	3rd	17 21 26 27 33
2023-05-30	10	4th	12 20 25 26 28
2023-05-06	4	4th	1 7 8 26 28
2023-04-27	16	2nd	20 26 29 33 34
2023-03-21	4	3rd	12 23 26 28 35
2023-03-11	18	3rd	12 20 26 33 34
2023-01-28	8	4th	2 17 18 26 32
2023-01-10	14	4th	3 4 24 26 30
2022-12-08	13	5th	2 14 17 21 26
2022-11-08	12	3rd	10 13 26 32 33
2022-10-11	3	5th	9 15 22 25 26
2022-10-04	5	4th	15 19 23 26 35
2022-09-22	1	3rd	7 22 26 31 34
2022-09-20	2	4th	4 11 23 26 34
2022-09-15	1	3rd	7 20 26 27 35
2022-09-13	4	3rd	6 17 26 27 31
2022-09-03	2	4th	11 19 23 26 29
2022-08-30	14	5th	2 9 12 25 26
2022-07-28	8	5th	14 15 23 25 26
2022-07-09	16	5th	1 8 19 20 26
2022-06-02	17	3rd	18 22 26 28 31
2022-04-23	21	4th	5 9 22 26 31
2022-03-05	1	5th	1 8 20 22 26
2022-03-03	8	5th	7 10 13 14 26
2022-02-12	4	5th	1 9 12 22 26
2022-02-03	14	5th	5 9 20 25 26
2022-01-01	15	3rd	3 9 26 30 34
2021-11-27	1	4th	8 13 24 26 30
2021-11-25	4	5th	6 16 19 24 26
2021-11-16	6	5th	1 7 14 20 26
2021-11-02	5	4th	5 14 15 26 29
2021-10-21	1	5th	7 11 14 18 26
2021-10-19	13	5th	4 8 10 25 26
2021-09-18	23	5th	7 13 23 25 26
2021-07-27	1	5th	3 4 15 25 26
2021-07-24	2	4th	11 13 21 26 32
2021-07-20	5	5th	5 7 15 18 26
2021-07-08	1	4th	9 13 22 26 33
2021-07-06	10	3rd	16 17 26 30 33
2021-06-12	11	4th	9 18 22 26 34
2021-05-15	2	4th	14 23 25 26 33
2021-05-11	—	4th	4 11 18 26 28