Number 42

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.23σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 40% for any number

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

28longest completed wait · 32% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, +0.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 8 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 42 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.2
4th smallest1 · chance 1.8
5th smallest3 · chance 5.8
6th smallest10 · chance 6.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 13 18 19 21 9

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 11 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 42 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 33rd most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers above 31 ×0.86

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 42 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-12	15	6th	6 18 19 31 35 42
2026-07-22	1	6th	14 16 19 23 37 42
2026-07-18	5	6th	3 6 27 31 41 42
2026-07-01	4	5th

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: 42 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.