Number 26

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 4 from 1–35.

9times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.04σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

10.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

20longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 109 draws against 12.5 expected, −1.04σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 109 draws · average wait 10.6 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 7 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 smallest0 · chance 1.4
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.1
4th smallest6 · chance 3.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 3 25 1 9 18

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 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
2026-09-14	9	4th	3 6 12 26
2026-08-13	5	4th	6 11 23 26
2026-07-27	4	3rd	18 25 26 31
2026-07-13	18	4th	1 3 8 26
2026-05-11	20

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.