Number 26

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

12times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.30σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

14longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +0.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 14 · waiting 8 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 smallest0 · chance 0.6
2nd smallest0 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.3
4th smallest5 · chance 3.3
5th smallest1 · chance 1.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 12 17 24 30 3

Never drawn alongside 18 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 20 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
2026-09-12	5	3rd	17 24 26 30 39 45
2026-08-26	9	5th	3 8 17 19 26 46
2026-07-25	6	3rd	9 13 26 28 29 43
2026-07-04	6	3rd	19 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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.