Number 26

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.16σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 73% for any number

6.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

23longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, +0.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 101 draws · average wait 6.3 draws · longest completed wait 23 · 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 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 0.1
2nd smallest1 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest6 · chance 3.4
4th smallest8 · chance 5.5
5th smallest0 · chance 4.1
6th smallest0 · chance 1.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 39 1 14 15 19

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 42. 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
2026-10-07	7	4th	10 14 19 26 37 42
2026-09-12	7	4th	3 6 10 26 33 40
2026-08-19	1	4th	14 15 19 26 31 42
2026-08-15	6	4th

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.