Number 14

In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 119 draws, 5 from 1–90.

11times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.76σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 89% for any number

10.2average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

26longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

14 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 119 draws against 6.6 expected, +1.76σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 14, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 119 draws · average wait 10.2 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 3 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 smallest4 · chance 5.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.1
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 12 9 26 44 62

Never drawn alongside 54 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 54 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 90. 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
2026-10-17	4	2nd	12 14 22 54 59
2026-10-08	5	1st	14 26 57 67 89
2026-09-26	22	3rd	6 9 14 62 88
2026-08-11	26	1st	14 18 52 58 60

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 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.