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Number 26 In Lotto under the 6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 rules — 442 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).
6/50 + 1/25 · since Apr 2025 6/52 · Jan 2015 – Apr 2025 6/52 + 1/25 · Oct 2012 – Jan 2015 6/52 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2012 43 times drawn · chance expected 51 −1.19σ
1 draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number
10.3 average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7
115 longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long
26 is drawn as often as chance explains Drawn 43 times in 442 draws against 51.0 expected, −1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
26 Number 26, draw by draw Drawn 43 times in 442 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 115 · waiting 1 draws now
5 draws: 2010-01-23 to 2010-02-03 17 draws: 2010-02-03 to 2010-03-15 6 draws: 2010-03-15 to 2010-03-29 1 draws: 2010-03-29 to 2010-03-31 9 draws: 2010-03-31 to 2010-04-21 13 draws: 2010-04-21 to 2010-05-22 6 draws: 2010-05-22 to 2010-06-05 4 draws: 2010-06-05 to 2010-06-14 7 draws: 2010-06-14 to 2010-06-30 8 draws: 2010-06-30 to 2010-07-19 115 draws: 2010-07-19 to 2011-04-13 4 draws: 2011-04-13 to 2011-04-23 21 draws: 2011-04-23 to 2011-06-11 5 draws: 2011-06-11 to 2011-06-22 9 draws: 2011-06-22 to 2011-07-13 8 draws: 2011-07-13 to 2011-08-01 11 draws: 2011-08-01 to 2011-08-27 7 draws: 2011-08-27 to 2011-09-12 2 draws: 2011-09-12 to 2011-09-17 13 draws: 2011-09-17 to 2011-10-17 15 draws: 2011-10-17 to 2011-11-21 9 draws: 2011-11-21 to 2011-12-12 12 draws: 2011-12-12 to 2012-01-09 5 draws: 2012-01-09 to 2012-01-21 4 draws: 2012-01-21 to 2012-01-30 11 draws: 2012-01-30 to 2012-02-25 2 draws: 2012-02-25 to 2012-02-29 9 draws: 2012-02-29 to 2012-03-21 6 draws: 2012-03-21 to 2012-04-04 6 draws: 2012-04-04 to 2012-04-18 1 draws: 2012-04-18 to 2012-04-21 16 draws: 2012-04-21 to 2012-05-30 11 draws: 2012-05-30 to 2012-06-25 3 draws: 2012-06-25 to 2012-07-02 9 draws: 2012-07-02 to 2012-07-23 12 draws: 2012-07-23 to 2012-08-20 11 draws: 2012-08-20 to 2012-09-15 5 draws: 2012-09-15 to 2012-09-26 1 draws: 2012-09-26 to 2012-09-29 9 draws: 2012-09-29 to 2012-10-20 2 draws: 2012-10-20 to 2012-10-24 1 draws: 2012-10-24 to 2012-10-27 Still waiting — at least 1 draws since 2012-10-27 2010-01-23 2010-02-03 2010-03-15 2010-03-29 2010-03-31 2010-04-21 2010-05-22 2010-06-05 2010-06-14 2010-06-30 2010-07-19 2011-04-13 2011-04-23 2011-06-11 2011-06-22 2011-07-13 2011-08-01 2011-08-27 2011-09-12 2011-09-17 2011-10-17 2011-11-21 2011-12-12 2012-01-09 2012-01-21 2012-01-30 2012-02-25 2012-02-29 2012-03-21 2012-04-04 2012-04-18 2012-04-21 2012-05-30 2012-06-25 2012-07-02 2012-07-23 2012-08-20 2012-09-15 2012-09-26 2012-09-29 2012-10-20 2012-10-24 2012-10-27 2010-01-02 2012-10-29
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1st smallest 0 · chance 1.2 2nd smallest 6 · chance 6.8 3rd smallest 18 · chance 14.3 4th smallest 10 · chance 13.7 5th smallest 6 · chance 6.0 6th smallest 3 · chance 1.0 Every position’s lane →
The company it keeps Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 4.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 0.8 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 52. 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 ← number 25 Every number number 27 → 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 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.