Number 43

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

12times drawn · chance expected 7 +2.03σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

4.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

12longest completed wait · 92% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +2.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 52 draws · average wait 4.4 draws · longest completed wait 12 · 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 43 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 smallest0 · chance 0.6
5th smallest3 · chance 2.7
6th smallest7 · chance 5.1
7th smallest2 · chance 3.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 35 13 23 26 31

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 43 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 43 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-29	1	6th	6 10 13 22 23 43 49
2026-09-25	5	5th	8 24 38 41 43 50 52
2026-09-08	6	5th	12 18 19 35 43 49 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: 43 is drawn with probability 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.