Number 43

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 140 draws, 5 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.36σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 81% for any number

11.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

27longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 140 draws · average wait 11.3 draws · longest completed wait 27 · 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 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.9
4th smallest4 · chance 4.6
5th smallest8 · chance 7.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

37 4 12 29 5 9

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 — 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 43 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-09	4	5th	8 18 19 41 43
2026-10-05	5	4th	9 30 42 43 48
2026-09-30	1	5th	5 28 34 37 43
2026-09-29	12	4th	14 21

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.