Number 40

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.64σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

27longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.64σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 6 times, counted separately.

Number 40, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 27 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest0 · chance 1.0
5th smallest6 · chance 4.5
6th smallest6 · chance 6.4

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.

2 13 8 11 16 27

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 45. 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
2026-10-10	1	5th	11 25 28 29 40 43
2026-10-03	6	6th	2 7 13 27 39 40
2026-08-22	11	6th	2 8 15 21 36 40
2026-06-06	27	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: 40 is drawn with probability 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.