Number 40

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

7times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.00σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

5.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

13longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +0.00σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 40, draw by draw

Drawn 7 times in 52 draws · average wait 5.2 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 7 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 40 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 0.1
4th smallest1 · chance 0.8
5th smallest4 · chance 2.1
6th smallest2 · chance 2.7
7th smallest0 · chance 1.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 49 23 28 32 34

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 22 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 40 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd 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 above 31 ×0.86
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 40 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-15	13	5th	2 23 30 38 40 44 49
2026-07-31	4	5th	3 28 32 37 40 44 47
2026-07-17	1	5th	8 12 13 32 40 41 52

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: 40 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.