Number 26

In Lotto Max under the 7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026 rules — 722 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

107times drawn · chance expected 101 +0.63σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 10% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

24longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 107 times in 722 draws against 101.1 expected, +0.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 14 times, counted separately.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 107 times in 722 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 16 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 1.0
2nd smallest8 · chance 8.1
3rd smallest24 · chance 24.4
4th smallest40 · chance 35.6
5th smallest25 · chance 26.7
6th smallest9 · chance 9.8
7th smallest0 · chance 1.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 29 35 36 46 14

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 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 50. 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
2026-02-13	1	3rd	3 13 26 36 41 42 43
2026-02-10	9	4th	4 7 17 26 28 30 35
2026-01-09	1	3rd	9 21 26 31 34 36

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-04-23	5	4th	7 14 17 26 29 38 39
2024-04-05	3	5th	4 8 18 24 26 35 46
2024-03-26	16	4th	21 24 25 26 31 42 43
2024-01-30	1	5th	1 6 12 18 26 27 40
2024-01-26	5	6th	7 11 21 22 24 26 35
2024-01-09	12	6th	1 2 12 20 24 26 28
2023-11-28	8	4th	1 18 25 26 30 34 39
2023-10-31	9	4th	22 23 25 26 35 40 44
2023-09-29	2	4th	2 12 19 26 34 44 46
2023-09-22	5	4th	12 13 19 26 33 39 43
2023-09-05	2	4th	8 20 23 26 38 45 47
2023-08-29	8	5th	13 17 19 22 26 28 40
2023-08-01	1	3rd	2 13 26 28 30 43 46
2023-07-28	8	3rd	4 17 26 28 29 41 48
2023-06-30	14	4th	1 13 19 26 35 42 49
2023-05-12	6	4th	4 5 20 26 28 29 48
2023-04-21	1	4th	7 8 18 26 33 42 46
2023-04-18	3	5th	5 7 16 20 26 30 36
2023-04-07	2	2nd	15 26 34 41 44 45 46
2023-03-31	7	3rd	1 3 26 28 36 47 50
2023-03-07	4	3rd	1 16 26 28 31 44 45
2023-02-21	1	3rd	2 14 26 31 35 39 49
2023-02-17	3	4th	10 12 23 26 39 41 45
2023-02-07	11	3rd	1 13 26 30 37 42 50
2022-12-30	12	2nd	6 26 32 37 38 39 46
2022-11-18	3	5th	3 5 11 17 26 42 49
2022-11-08	4	5th	4 7 14 18 26 40 42
2022-10-25	8	5th	3 6 19 23 26 28 43
2022-09-27	9	4th	10 12 13 26 29 39 46
2022-08-26	2	4th	3 11 22 26 29 46 48
2022-08-19	3	3rd	5 20 26 33 35 46 48
2022-08-09	8	4th	16 19 25 26 27 33 45
2022-07-12	14	5th	8 11 15 16 26 29 40
2022-05-24	13	2nd	12 26 30 31 35 39 45
2022-04-08	5	6th	1 2 14 15 21 26 29
2022-03-22	1	4th	14 16 20 26 33 36 48
2022-03-18	3	5th	5 7 12 18 26 29 46
2022-03-08	4	6th	10 12 13 18 25 26 37
2022-02-22	2	3rd	3 13 26 27 28 36 45
2022-02-15	4	2nd	19 26 28 36 40 42 48
2022-02-01	3	4th	9 14 24 26 29 39 49
2022-01-21	5	4th	10 14 21 26 28 36 50
2022-01-04	4	6th	7 8 13 20 25 26 48
2021-12-21	2	3rd	13 23 26 27 28 38 47
2021-12-14	5	4th	3 21 22 26 28 44 49
2021-11-26	3	2nd	9 26 30 35 37 42 50
2021-11-16	2	5th	5 6 7 17 26 29 42
2021-11-09	6	6th	2 8 16 17 19 26 42
2021-10-19	9	2nd	12 26 28 32 41 43 50
2021-09-17	5	4th	3 6 10 26 29 35 45
2021-08-31	2	4th	3 11 23 26 31 42 50
2021-08-24	11	3rd	1 24 26 29 30 45 50
2021-07-16	3	4th	13 17 24 26 33 46 48
2021-07-06	8	4th	10 14 25 26 38 41 50
2021-06-08	7	5th	1 9 14 24 26 37 42
2021-05-14	5	5th	3 18 19 24 26 27 45
2021-04-27	11	4th	7 11 14 26 27 29 36
2021-03-19	15	4th	2 7 8 26 30 43 48
2021-01-26	5	1st	26 37 42 44 46 49 50
2021-01-08	18	5th	4 21 24 25 26 27 42
2020-11-06	1	5th	7 9 19 20 26 32 35
2020-11-03	9	5th	5 7 14 21 26 34 49
2020-10-02	8	4th	7 12 16 26 40 45 49
2020-09-04	8	4th	7 18 22 26 35 41 50
2020-08-07	5	3rd	9 21 26 28 30 37 44
2020-07-21	4	3rd	7 22 26 35 46 47 49
2020-07-07	11	6th	9 20 21 22 25 26 37
2020-05-29	5	5th	5 12 15 23 26 38 41
2020-05-12	1	4th	11 19 22 26 33 46 48
2020-05-08	4	5th	3 4 10 11 26 28 40
2020-04-24	22	4th	8 9 19 26 27 31 46
2020-02-07	16	3rd	21 24 26 31 36 48 49
2019-12-13	10	5th	2 12 14 15 26 34 39
2019-11-08	4	5th	3 5 10 18 26 33 46
2019-10-25	8	6th	6 11 16 18 23 26 40
2019-09-27	1	4th	3 9 25 26 28 34 38
2019-09-24	1	3rd	3 22 26 32 38 42 43
2019-09-20	10	3rd	9 15 26 36 39 41 47
2019-08-16	4	4th	22 24 25 26 29 32 46
2019-08-02	5	5th	11 20 23 24 26 41 44
2019-07-16	4	6th	11 14 17 21 23 26 36
2019-07-02	10	3rd	6 14 26 31 34 36 45
2019-05-28	—	4th	4 9 10 26 27 29 37