Number 26

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/46 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 rules — 120 draws, 6 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

15times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.09σ

20draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

15longest completed wait · 91% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 120 draws against 14.7 expected, +0.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 20 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 120 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 20 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 0.3
2nd smallest0 · chance 1.9
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.7
4th smallest3 · chance 5.1
5th smallest5 · chance 2.5
6th smallest1 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 1 2 5 7 8

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 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 26 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2025-09-10	8	3rd	5 21 26 31 46 47
2025-08-13	4	3rd	4 14 26 27 40 41
2025-07-30	12	5th	7 8 20 23 26 49

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.