Number 26

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

77times drawn · chance expected 88 −1.23σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

9.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

38longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

26 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −1.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 26, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 720 draws · average wait 9.3 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 13 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 1.2
2nd smallest13 · chance 9.6
3rd smallest34 · chance 26.5
4th smallest25 · chance 29.1
5th smallest5 · chance 10.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

39 37 2 41 17 31

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
2023-10-04	20	3rd	13 22 26 33 38
2023-09-14	26	3rd	4 6 26 27 40
2023-08-19	2	4th	2 10 15 26 38
2023-08-17	3	3rd	18 25 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.

2023-02-13	5	4th	3 10 17 26 30
2023-02-08	16	3rd	14 17 26 33 40
2023-01-23	8	4th	1 5 17 26 41
2023-01-15	11	4th	9 11 15 26 35
2023-01-04	10	2nd	9 26 29 33 34
2021-12-25	1	3rd	4 21 26 27 34
2021-12-24	10	4th	2 8 20 26 39
2021-12-14	9	5th	2 7 17 20 26
2021-12-05	9	2nd	23 26 30 32 38
2021-11-26	22	4th	6 13 19 26 38
2021-11-04	1	4th	4 12 15 26 36
2021-11-03	6	3rd	4 19 26 33 40
2021-10-28	16	4th	2 4 23 26 31
2021-10-12	9	3rd	23 25 26 30 37
2021-10-03	4	4th	6 9 25 26 39
2021-09-29	32	2nd	18 26 27 28 29
2021-08-28	8	5th	3 6 17 22 26
2021-08-20	7	2nd	17 26 34 38 41
2021-08-13	2	4th	2 8 18 26 38
2021-08-11	1	3rd	3 23 26 31 41
2021-08-10	7	5th	7 8 15 18 26
2021-08-03	19	4th	7 14 20 26 27
2021-07-15	21	4th	4 10 13 26 37
2021-06-24	7	3rd	7 11 26 27 29
2021-06-17	16	3rd	20 21 26 31 32
2021-06-01	5	2nd	21 26 32 38 41
2021-05-27	4	4th	14 16 20 26 30
2021-05-23	11	2nd	13 26 33 39 41
2021-05-12	3	4th	16 17 25 26 37
2021-05-09	7	3rd	15 24 26 34 37
2021-05-02	8	3rd	16 22 26 29 37
2021-04-24	15	4th	3 12 24 26 32
2021-04-09	1	4th	3 5 18 26 29
2021-04-08	13	3rd	2 8 26 27 31
2021-03-26	2	2nd	1 26 30 40 41
2021-03-24	7	4th	7 20 21 26 34
2021-03-17	4	4th	16 18 21 26 41
2021-03-13	9	3rd	6 25 26 28 39
2021-03-04	34	4th	6 7 22 26 37
2021-01-29	16	2nd	11 26 30 31 35
2021-01-13	1	3rd	12 17 26 28 37
2021-01-12	1	4th	1 2 18 26 40
2021-01-11	2	3rd	5 10 26 33 34
2021-01-09	14	3rd	3 6 26 33 40
2020-12-26	4	3rd	12 19 26 27 39
2020-12-22	12	3rd	6 21 26 28 33
2020-12-10	4	2nd	9 26 37 40 41
2020-12-06	16	5th	1 7 20 25 26
2020-11-20	7	5th	6 8 11 25 26
2020-11-13	5	3rd	10 25 26 32 34
2020-11-08	6	2nd	5 26 31 32 37
2020-11-02	5	4th	10 17 24 26 35
2020-10-28	—	2nd	5 26 34 35 40