Number 26

In Set for Life under the 8/37 + 2/37 · Aug 2015 – Mar 2020 rules — 1,690 draws, 8 from 1–37 (an earlier era).

336times drawn · chance expected 365 −1.74σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 23% for any number

5.0average wait between appearances · chance says 4.6

20longest completed wait · 96% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 336 times in 1,690 draws against 365.4 expected, −1.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 89 times, counted separately.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 336 times in 1,690 draws · average wait 5.0 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 smallest1 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 5.6
4th smallest34 · chance 30.6
5th smallest90 · chance 84.0
6th smallest117 · chance 117.6
7th smallest74 · chance 78.4
8th smallest17 · chance 19.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 65.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

33 23 2 36 5 19

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 36 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 37. 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
2020-03-15	12	5th	5 9 18 25 26 28 29 30
2020-03-03	12	8th	6 9 17 22 23 24 25 26
2020-02-20	11	6th	1 7 14

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 8/37 tonight whatever it did last week.

2019-10-19	5	5th	8 14 15 16 26 27 28 32
2019-10-14	1	5th	2 4 17 22 26 27 29 35
2019-10-13	3	6th	2 3 5 17 25 26 27 29
2019-10-10	3	4th	11 17 23 26 32 35 36 37
2019-10-07	2	7th	5 6 13 18 19 23 26 37
2019-10-05	18	5th	4 22 23 25 26 29 30 34
2019-09-17	15	6th	6 9 21 22 23 26 34 36
2019-09-02	3	7th	2 4 5 11 15 20 26 29
2019-08-30	14	6th	5 6 13 23 25 26 29 31
2019-08-16	1	6th	2 9 11 17 23 26 29 37
2019-08-15	5	5th	1 4 10 17 26 27 33 35
2019-08-10	1	6th	2 10 13 14 24 26 28 34
2019-08-09	1	7th	4 6 9 11 15 17 26 34
2019-08-08	2	6th	8 9 12 17 21 26 29 37
2019-08-06	6	6th	3 6 13 18 25 26 31 35
2019-07-31	7	4th	15 20 24 26 27 29 33 35
2019-07-24	16	7th	12 18 19 23 24 25 26 32
2019-07-08	6	6th	8 9 13 14 24 26 29 31
2019-07-02	7	7th	2 3 10 14 20 23 26 28
2019-06-25	4	5th	1 9 11 20 26 33 35 36
2019-06-21	1	6th	5 8 15 21 23 26 35 36
2019-06-20	8	5th	1 8 17 19 26 27 31 36
2019-06-12	9	5th	14 17 21 22 26 30 32 37
2019-06-03	5	5th	9 14 23 25 26 29 33 34
2019-05-29	1	7th	7 9 15 18 24 25 26 33
2019-05-28	4	6th	2 6 12 17 20 26 29 35
2019-05-24	6	6th	2 6 21 24 25 26 32 33
2019-05-18	4	7th	1 2 4 5 7 15 26 27
2019-05-14	11	7th	7 11 16 19 24 25 26 31
2019-05-03	18	5th	1 2 12 16 26 29 31 32
2019-04-15	3	6th	1 5 10 11 24 26 29 33
2019-04-12	2	8th	1 11 15 17 21 22 23 26
2019-04-10	1	7th	3 4 9 10 21 23 26 32
2019-04-09	3	6th	2 10 12 16 23 26 32 34
2019-04-06	1	6th	4 8 15 17 20 26 27 32
2019-04-05	6	7th	5 11 13 16 17 24 26 35
2019-03-30	3	5th	10 12 16 20 26 29 36 37
2019-03-27	7	7th	5 6 9 10 22 24 26 30
2019-03-20	6	4th	2 10 21 26 31 33 34 35
2019-03-14	2	7th	4 9 19 21 23 25 26 36
2019-03-12	3	5th	10 13 21 22 26 27 28 37
2019-03-09	5	7th	4 5 6 7 9 12 26 37
2019-03-04	1	6th	2 3 6 17 20 26 35 36
2019-03-03	4	7th	3 4 7 11 23 24 26 34
2019-02-27	2	7th	5 6 11 12 17 22 26 34
2019-02-25	3	7th	2 5 10 11 14 17 26 34
2019-02-22	2	5th	4 15 17 23 26 30 33 35
2019-02-20	8	5th	6 9 16 19 26 29 30 37
2019-02-12	1	4th	1 6 13 26 28 30 33 36
2019-02-11	1	7th	7 11 14 15 16 19 26 35
2019-02-10	6	4th	10 16 17 26 27 29 33 34
2019-02-04	5	6th	3 9 14 18 22 26 33 34
2019-01-30	5	4th	2 5 21 26 30 34 36 37
2019-01-25	10	6th	2 6 17 18 23 26 28 36
2019-01-15	5	5th	3 11 18 20 26 29 32 36
2019-01-10	2	6th	2 11 14 18 22 26 30 37
2019-01-08	4	6th	1 5 15 22 23 26 32 33
2019-01-04	1	5th	2 10 14 24 26 31 33 35
2019-01-03	1	6th	13 16 17 18 19 26 31 32
2019-01-02	5	7th	1 7 9 14 16 19 26 31
2018-12-28	3	5th	1 9 13 24 26 27 29 33
2018-12-25	2	6th	3 9 19 20 21 26 29 36
2018-12-23	7	6th	1 5 8 9 20 26 29 30
2018-12-16	10	6th	1 5 6 16 22 26 29 32
2018-12-06	11	6th	8 10 20 21 23 26 28 34
2018-11-25	1	5th	4 5 23 25 26 29 32 35
2018-11-24	3	7th	2 5 8 13 18 21 26 30
2018-11-21	2	6th	2 8 19 21 23 26 28 29
2018-11-19	2	6th	4 11 16 19 24 26 28 34
2018-11-17	5	5th	12 16 19 21 26 28 29 36
2018-11-12	3	7th	2 6 7 8 16 24 26 27
2018-11-09	11	7th	1 12 13 15 24 25 26 36
2018-10-29	5	4th	7 10 14 26 31 35 36 37
2018-10-24	5	5th	7 11 16 19 26 33 34 35
2018-10-19	5	5th	1 8 9 18 26 28 30 33
2018-10-14	7	6th	1 8 9 14 23 26 28 37
2018-10-07	1	7th	3 5 6 8 15 22 26 30
2018-10-06	2	5th	1 9 11 23 26 34 35 36
2018-10-04	1	4th	14 24 25 26 27 28 32 37
2018-10-03	10	5th	13 15 16 21 26 27 30 36
2018-09-23	3	7th	1 2 6 14 22 25 26 33
2018-09-20	3	5th	3 14 15 19 26 34 36 37
2018-09-17	2	7th	4 6 11 19 22 24 26 27
2018-09-15	1	7th	1 7 12 15 22 25 26 37
2018-09-14	6	5th	3 12 17 19 26 30 33 36
2018-09-08	2	8th	1 6 8 11 16 20 21 26
2018-09-06	12	6th	2 13 14 16 19 26 30 36
2018-08-25	7	4th	5 8 25 26 31 33 35 36
2018-08-18	1	4th	15 21 22 26 27 33 34 36
2018-08-17	8	6th	2 10 14 16 25 26 28 33
2018-08-09	4	5th	6 7 10 15 26 34 35 36
2018-08-05	5	5th	12 18 24 25 26 28 35 36
2018-07-31	6	6th	4 14 16 18 22 26 33 34
2018-07-25	1	5th	4 6 7 8 26 30 32 35
2018-07-24	2	4th	8 19 21 26 27 28 30 36
2018-07-22	6	6th	8 11 13 21 22 26 31 34
2018-07-16	6	5th	2 6 12 20 26 29 30 31
2018-07-10	2	5th	5 7 18 19 26 30 31 36
2018-07-08	4	4th	8 18 21 26 29 30 32 35
2018-07-04	9	6th	5 7 10 12 23 26 31 35
2018-06-25	7	6th	4 7 13 14 25 26 27 31
2018-06-18	1	4th	2 4 8 26 27 30 34 35
2018-06-17	13	8th	2 7 8 14 15 17 23 26
2018-06-04	12	5th	8 17 19 20 26 27 28 33
2018-05-23	1	4th	4 5 21 26 27 28 29 36
2018-05-22	2	7th	1 2 3 9 15 16 26 34
2018-05-20	3	8th	4 5 7 11 22 23 25 26
2018-05-17	2	6th	3 6 11 12 22 26 32 36
2018-05-15	5	5th	1 8 13 22 26 32 34 35
2018-05-10	1	6th	1 5 13 17 23 26 32 35
2018-05-09	1	6th	2 3 7 9 21 26 27 31
2018-05-08	2	4th	2 16 17 26 28 33 34 36
2018-05-06	15	7th	2 3 10 11 22 24 26 31
2018-04-21	5	6th	3 4 15 18 25 26 32 34
2018-04-16	1	6th	4 17 19 20 25 26 33 35
2018-04-15	6	5th	5 13 19 25 26 28 29 31
2018-04-09	10	5th	9 11 13 18 26 27 28 34
2018-03-30	1	6th	7 8 9 12 17 26 30 36
2018-03-29	10	5th	6 11 12 17 26 27 31 36
2018-03-19	3	7th	5 9 10 18 21 23 26 33
2018-03-16	3	5th	6 8 21 23 26 30 34 36
2018-03-13	5	7th	7 8 14 15 17 21 26 30
2018-03-08	2	5th	2 3 10 24 26 33 35 37
2018-03-06	4	7th	2 5 7 9 13 25 26 33
2018-03-02	1	5th	1 5 12 16 26 27 28 35
2018-03-01	12	7th	5 7 10 11 14 25 26 35
2018-02-17	1	7th	3 6 7 16 18 19 26 32
2018-02-16	4	5th	4 13 17 25 26 33 34 35
2018-02-12	8	5th	13 17 19 23 26 29 32 35
2018-02-04	8	7th	2 3 4 12 13 23 26 29
2018-01-27	2	6th	1 4 7 15 17 26 31 36
2018-01-25	2	5th	2 16 19 25 26 31 33 36
2018-01-23	10	8th	1 7 8 10 12 18 22 26
2018-01-13	2	7th	2 6 12 16 19 23 26 31
2018-01-11	4	6th	1 9 10 15 20 26 27 31
2018-01-07	1	4th	3 9 25 26 27 29 34 37
2018-01-06	11	5th	2 9 16 23 26 28 31 33
2017-12-26	8	7th	1 8 10 13 21 24 26 33
2017-12-18	7	6th	2 5 16 17 19 26 28 31
2017-12-11	1	5th	3 5 8 18 26 28 29 36
2017-12-10	1	5th	3 6 20 23 26 28 31 33
2017-12-09	4	7th	4 6 9 15 17 19 26 33
2017-12-05	6	7th	2 4 5 14 23 25 26 29
2017-11-29	1	5th	1 3 8 16 26 27 32 33
2017-11-28	7	6th	1 6 10 13 15 26 30 33
2017-11-21	5	6th	8 9 11 14 24 26 28 30
2017-11-16	3	7th	2 19 20 22 23 25 26 33
2017-11-13	6	5th	2 3 5 7 26 30 32 37
2017-11-07	7	6th	16 18 20 23 25 26 30 36
2017-10-31	1	6th	2 8 18 20 25 26 27 36
2017-10-30	3	7th	8 12 13 14 17 24 26 27
2017-10-27	1	5th	6 13 20 24 26 28 30 36
2017-10-26	9	7th	4 5 9 11 18 25 26 35
2017-10-17	1	5th	3 7 14 21 26 32 35 36
2017-10-16	9	5th	5 12 16 17 26 27 35 36
2017-10-07	5	6th	7 12 16 19 21 26 32 35
2017-10-02	1	8th	9 13 16 18 19 22 23 26
2017-10-01	9	8th	1 5 16 17 19 21 25 26
2017-09-22	2	7th	5 7 14 18 21 22 26 33
2017-09-20	2	6th	7 13 16 21 23 26 28 32
2017-09-18	1	6th	11 12 13 14 15 26 34 37
2017-09-17	4	6th	9 11 16 18 19 26 35 36
2017-09-13	5	7th	5 7 9 12 16 18 26 28
2017-09-08	1	5th	12 15 22 25 26 31 33 36
2017-09-07	1	4th	6 7 16 26 29 31 34 37
2017-09-06	1	7th	2 5 6 13 16 20 26 34
2017-09-05	9	6th	3 11 13 18 22 26 32 37
2017-08-27	8	8th	2 5 8 9 10 16 20 26
2017-08-19	1	8th	1 3 9 13 14 18 24 26
2017-08-18	4	5th	9 17 22 24 26 27 32 33
2017-08-14	3	5th	2 6 19 22 26 30 31 36
2017-08-11	7	5th	11 13 15 23 26 31 34 35
2017-08-04	5	6th	1 4 6 7 12 26 28 30
2017-07-30	4	4th	1 5 22 26 31 33 36 37
2017-07-26	5	6th	3 4 15 16 25 26 34 37
2017-07-21	2	5th	3 12 13 24 26 29 31 35
2017-07-19	11	3rd	7 8 26 31 32 33 35 36
2017-07-08	4	6th	2 9 13 16 25 26 30 32
2017-07-04	1	6th	9 10 18 19 21 26 28 36
2017-07-03	13	7th	1 4 6 8 18 25 26 27
2017-06-20	9	5th	5 6 7 19 26 27 28 36
2017-06-11	9	6th	1 2 10 13 17 26 33 37
2017-06-02	9	6th	3 11 12 13 14 26 30 37
2017-05-24	2	7th	5 10 11 12 19 21 26 31
2017-05-22	8	6th	8 13 21 22 25 26 28 37
2017-05-14	12	5th	1 8 20 23 26 27 33 36
2017-05-02	9	5th	8 10 16 19 26 29 35 37
2017-04-23	3	5th	4 17 18 25 26 28 33 37
2017-04-20	2	5th	2 6 7 8 26 32 34 37
2017-04-18	2	6th	1 6 10 14 15 26 28 34
2017-04-16	4	6th	2 8 14 20 25 26 27 33
2017-04-12	9	4th	5 16 21 26 27 29 31 36
2017-04-03	2	7th	3 8 10 11 18 19 26 37
2017-04-01	2	6th	2 3 4 14 17 26 29 36
2017-03-30	4	7th	2 10 17 22 23 24 26 33
2017-03-26	5	5th	10 11 13 20 26 31 33 34
2017-03-21	4	6th	4 7 12 18 25 26 27 28
2017-03-17	12	6th	5 7 9 13 22 26 27 31
2017-03-05	2	5th	2 6 7 20 26 29 32 34
2017-03-03	8	7th	3 10 12 20 21 25 26 32
2017-02-23	3	6th	7 9 17 23 25 26 27 33
2017-02-20	3	6th	4 6 10 17 22 26 29 32
2017-02-17	1	6th	5 7 14 19 23 26 28 36
2017-02-16	11	5th	9 12 14 19 26 30 35 36
2017-02-05	1	6th	2 3 5 12 25 26 31 35
2017-02-04	7	6th	11 14 17 22 23 26 28 33
2017-01-28	3	7th	1 9 12 13 15 23 26 32
2017-01-25	9	4th	2 3 17 26 30 34 35 37
2017-01-16	5	5th	3 10 16 17 26 29 33 35
2017-01-11	5	5th	6 12 13 22 26 28 29 30
2017-01-06	4	4th	12 14 19 26 30 31 35 37
2017-01-02	2	6th	6 13 16 18 19 26 32 33
2016-12-31	1	6th	1 8 15 16 17 26 27 37
2016-12-30	3	6th	12 13 17 19 22 26 29 30
2016-12-27	5	6th	1 8 9 15 17 26 27 31
2016-12-22	3	6th	1 6 10 15 19 26 34 35
2016-12-19	2	5th	5 8 19 24 26 27 29 32
2016-12-17	11	6th	2 4 7 16 22 26 32 34
2016-12-06	3	6th	3 5 13 19 23 26 33 35
2016-12-03	2	5th	1 7 13 14 26 31 32 36
2016-12-01	2	8th	1 3 10 17 19 21 25 26
2016-11-29	3	5th	2 3 5 22 26 29 31 36
2016-11-26	3	6th	1 5 6 19 21 26 32 35
2016-11-23	2	6th	1 6 12 18 24 26 28 33
2016-11-21	8	7th	5 6 7 10 17 23 26 28
2016-11-13	3	6th	3 6 12 23 24 26 27 33
2016-11-10	1	3rd	12 23 26 27 30 32 33 36
2016-11-09	8	7th	5 7 12 14 15 17 26 30
2016-11-01	4	5th	6 9 15 19 26 27 35 37
2016-10-28	6	6th	4 6 12 20 24 26 29 32
2016-10-22	10	7th	9 10 12 14 17 25 26 28
2016-10-12	7	6th	3 5 9 18 20 26 28 30
2016-10-05	5	7th	6 9 10 15 18 19 26 34
2016-09-30	7	4th	2 11 12 26 28 29 34 35
2016-09-23	6	4th	7 16 20 26 28 29 31 33
2016-09-17	1	5th	7 11 13 25 26 27 32 37
2016-09-16	1	6th	8 16 17 20 23 26 35 37
2016-09-15	1	5th	4 10 15 25 26 31 33 36
2016-09-14	14	7th	4 10 13 16 21 25 26 37
2016-08-31	11	7th	3 4 8 15 17 19 26 36
2016-08-20	10	6th	1 4 8 19 21 26 35 37
2016-08-10	1	7th	1 11 13 17 20 24 26 32
2016-08-09	5	6th	4 5 6 18 19 26 27 34
2016-08-04	15	6th	2 8 11 12 13 26 27 33
2016-07-20	5	4th	9 16 20 26 28 30 33 37
2016-07-15	1	6th	4 5 9 21 23 26 27 35
2016-07-14	1	5th	10 18 20 24 26 29 31 32
2016-07-13	7	7th	1 7 10 14 19 25 26 27
2016-07-06	3	7th	3 6 9 12 17 18 26 36
2016-07-03	8	5th	2 7 18 22 26 29 30 32
2016-06-25	9	6th	8 14 16 19 25 26 27 28
2016-06-16	2	6th	5 9 10 11 23 26 27 31
2016-06-14	4	6th	1 9 13 15 16 26 27 37
2016-06-10	5	4th	10 15 16 26 28 30 32 35
2016-06-05	2	5th	1 2 18 23 26 27 29 36
2016-06-03	1	4th	2 13 23 26 27 33 36 37
2016-06-02	10	6th	6 9 13 19 22 26 31 35
2016-05-23	2	4th	3 12 17 26 28 31 36 37
2016-05-21	8	7th	3 4 6 10 18 23 26 35
2016-05-13	14	6th	6 12 14 15 16 26 28 30
2016-04-29	2	5th	2 6 19 23 26 30 31 36
2016-04-27	1	5th	3 7 11 23 26 29 33 34
2016-04-26	1	4th	9 12 21 26 30 32 33 36
2016-04-25	3	6th	2 3 19 22 25 26 31 34
2016-04-22	3	8th	2 6 10 17 18 19 24 26
2016-04-19	3	6th	5 9 18 19 22 26 36 37
2016-04-16	9	7th	4 8 10 13 15 23 26 29
2016-04-07	3	7th	3 5 9 12 20 25 26 37
2016-04-04	7	5th	5 9 12 17 26 28 31 37
2016-03-28	3	7th	5 6 10 12 18 21 26 31
2016-03-25	1	3rd	15 18 26 29 30 32 33 35
2016-03-24	1	8th	1 3 4 7 9 13 18 26
2016-03-23	3	6th	5 8 14 18 23 26 33 36
2016-03-20	2	6th	12 14 16 18 21 26 31 32
2016-03-18	7	6th	9 11 19 23 24 26 32 37
2016-03-11	4	4th	1 16 18 26 27 31 32 35
2016-03-07	10	5th	13 15 18 25 26 28 29 37
2016-02-26	1	8th	1 3 9 12 13 16 23 26
2016-02-25	7	7th	5 10 13 16 19 23 26 33
2016-02-18	5	6th	3 13 15 17 18 26 27 34
2016-02-13	4	7th	2 10 12 14 18 21 26 36
2016-02-09	1	6th	3 4 6 8 17 26 29 32
2016-02-08	2	4th	10 18 23 26 30 31 34 36
2016-02-06	10	6th	2 8 13 22 23 26 27 32
2016-01-27	17	6th	4 10 11 19 20 26 33 37
2016-01-10	3	6th	5 7 12 14 19 26 34 35
2016-01-07	10	4th	2 7 18 26 28 33 34 36
2015-12-28	4	5th	8 13 17 22 26 30 34 36
2015-12-24	11	5th	2 5 21 22 26 31 33 34
2015-12-13	2	6th	10 11 19 23 25 26 28 29
2015-12-11	9	6th	2 7 17 23 25 26 27 35
2015-12-02	11	5th	3 10 18 23 26 27 29 33
2015-11-21	2	7th	10 19 22 23 24 25 26 28
2015-11-19	3	6th	5 6 17 21 22 26 28 33
2015-11-16	3	4th	11 13 16 26 28 30 31 32
2015-11-13	3	6th	6 7 8 14 18 26 31 35
2015-11-10	1	7th	1 10 12 15 18 22 26 27
2015-11-09	2	7th	9 12 16 18 19 22 26 33
2015-11-07	2	5th	11 15 18 21 26 27 28 32
2015-11-05	20	6th	7 10 15 19 25 26 31 34
2015-10-16	6	5th	5 6 8 23 26 30 33 35
2015-10-10	3	6th	7 14 15 20 23 26 28 31
2015-10-07	2	8th	3 7 10 13 15 17 22 26
2015-10-05	5	5th	10 15 23 24 26 27 28 34
2015-09-30	19	6th	4 8 13 14 23 26 31 34
2015-09-11	2	7th	7 13 14 17 18 21 26 36
2015-09-09	3	6th	1 2 6 14 19 26 28 34
2015-09-06	9	7th	5 6 10 15 17 25 26 36
2015-08-28	6	6th	1 6 14 21 25 26 27 28
2015-08-22	6	5th	3 18 22 23 26 29 31 37
2015-08-16	8	6th	5 8 15 19 23 26 29 34
2015-08-08	—	7th	6 7 12 13 21 25 26 36