Number 26

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018 rules — 897 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

114times drawn · chance expected 109 +0.47σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

39longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 114 times in 897 draws against 109.4 expected, +0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 114 times in 897 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 39 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 1.7
2nd smallest10 · chance 14.2
3rd smallest43 · chance 39.3
4th smallest42 · chance 43.0
5th smallest19 · chance 15.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 7 17 22 37 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 41. 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
2018-11-03	9	4th	1 6 25 26 34
2018-10-25	1	3rd	4 23 26 33 40
2018-10-24	12	5th	1 5 14 15 26
2018-10-12	3	3rd	2 12 26

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2018-03-23	9	4th	8 17 25 26 31
2018-03-14	4	5th	6 11 12 20 26
2018-03-10	1	2nd	20 26 35 36 41
2018-03-09	4	3rd	6 16 26 27 30
2018-03-05	26	3rd	13 22 26 29 35
2018-02-07	1	5th	6 13 17 22 26
2018-02-06	3	4th	6 7 13 26 39
2018-02-03	19	4th	8 11 23 26 37
2018-01-15	30	3rd	7 14 26 40 41
2017-12-16	1	5th	3 5 9 10 26
2017-12-15	3	4th	15 17 19 26 38
2017-12-12	10	3rd	1 8 26 27 41
2017-12-02	9	5th	10 12 17 18 26
2017-11-23	1	3rd	7 25 26 29 38
2017-11-22	5	3rd	1 23 26 35 38
2017-11-17	8	4th	1 4 21 26 27
2017-11-09	22	4th	6 21 24 26 33
2017-10-17	7	4th	6 9 17 26 37
2017-10-10	16	4th	11 14 19 26 38
2017-09-23	10	3rd	5 14 26 40 41
2017-09-13	2	3rd	2 24 26 36 37
2017-09-11	14	5th	3 6 22 23 26
2017-08-28	2	4th	3 11 20 26 27
2017-08-26	2	4th	1 10 11 26 37
2017-08-24	3	4th	14 17 25 26 31
2017-08-21	8	2nd	18 26 27 28 31
2017-08-13	14	4th	5 7 17 26 32
2017-07-30	16	5th	21 22 24 25 26
2017-07-14	2	3rd	6 10 26 27 32
2017-07-12	6	3rd	3 9 26 32 33
2017-07-06	17	5th	12 15 21 22 26
2017-06-19	10	3rd	4 16 26 27 37
2017-06-09	2	3rd	12 18 26 28 34
2017-06-07	9	3rd	4 5 26 34 36
2017-05-29	14	4th	4 8 24 26 33
2017-05-15	1	4th	11 15 23 26 35
2017-05-14	4	4th	14 18 22 26 28
2017-05-10	7	5th	3 11 20 21 26
2017-05-03	1	3rd	10 18 26 38 41
2017-05-02	2	4th	13 16 20 26 27
2017-04-30	13	3rd	7 10 26 30 31
2017-04-17	2	2nd	19 26 34 36 40
2017-04-15	11	4th	1 16 17 26 30
2017-04-02	3	5th	1 3 11 15 26
2017-03-30	5	3rd	1 15 26 33 35
2017-03-25	13	5th	1 4 16 18 26
2017-03-12	2	4th	4 10 22 26 33
2017-03-10	14	3rd	13 21 26 30 41
2017-02-24	1	3rd	7 10 26 37 41
2017-02-23	1	4th	12 15 19 26 34
2017-02-22	2	3rd	9 15 26 27 36
2017-02-20	3	5th	2 13 14 21 26
2017-02-17	7	4th	3 13 19 26 37
2017-02-10	4	4th	1 2 18 26 33
2017-02-06	2	3rd	11 13 26 27 32
2017-02-04	24	5th	1 7 15 19 26
2017-01-11	11	3rd	20 22 26 33 37
2016-12-31	12	4th	10 12 25 26 40
2016-12-19	3	4th	1 5 22 26 30
2016-12-16	6	5th	3 6 20 22 26
2016-12-10	8	3rd	2 14 26 33 38
2016-12-02	9	4th	4 19 23 26 28
2016-11-23	12	4th	7 19 20 26 31
2016-11-11	7	3rd	17 19 26 30 34
2016-11-04	12	5th	7 17 18 21 26
2016-10-23	2	3rd	8 23 26 29 38
2016-10-21	2	2nd	9 26 30 35 36
2016-10-19	3	3rd	6 11 26 27 40
2016-10-16	8	4th	5 13 23 26 37
2016-10-08	8	4th	13 21 24 26 37
2016-09-30	1	3rd	2 25 26 32 33
2016-09-29	14	3rd	4 10 26 32 37
2016-09-15	8	4th	9 14 21 26 28
2016-09-07	3	3rd	3 17 26 33 38
2016-09-04	10	3rd	4 15 26 29 32
2016-08-25	2	3rd	7 21 26 29 36
2016-08-23	8	3rd	12 17 26 28 36
2016-08-15	16	4th	6 9 19 26 28
2016-07-30	18	3rd	22 24 26 29 36
2016-07-12	2	4th	4 6 8 26 40
2016-07-10	13	3rd	19 21 26 28 37
2016-06-27	1	4th	12 13 18 26 40
2016-06-26	7	4th	2 12 22 26 36
2016-06-19	4	3rd	7 11 26 35 36
2016-06-15	6	3rd	3 25 26 29 32
2016-06-09	2	4th	2 7 20 26 41
2016-06-07	6	5th	3 8 9 21 26
2016-06-01	7	2nd	24 26 27 32 39
2016-05-25	7	4th	13 18 25 26 38
2016-05-18	—	2nd	17 26 30 38 39