Number 14

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 97 draws, 6 from 1–49.

8times drawn · chance expected 12 −1.20σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 18% for any number

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

18longest completed wait · 55% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 97 draws against 11.9 expected, −1.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 97 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 14 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 14 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 smallest3 · chance 1.5
2nd smallest1 · chance 3.2
3rd smallest4 · chance 2.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

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.

13 29 33 46 7 8

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 21 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 14 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. 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 14 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-09	15	3rd	7 13 14 33 46 49
2026-07-18	12	1st	14 23 29 31 33 46
2026-06-06	16	1st	14 20 26 35 41 42
2026-04-11	1	2nd

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: 14 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.