Number 42

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.55σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

15longest completed wait · 88% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +0.55σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 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 42, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 92 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 2 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 smallest1 · chance 0.2
4th smallest2 · chance 1.7
5th smallest5 · chance 5.4
6th smallest5 · chance 5.7

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.

29 1 13 15 32 43

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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
2026-10-03	8	5th	12 15 19 29 42 47
2026-09-05	11	6th	11 12 13 15 29 42
2026-07-29	15	6th	11 20 27 28 32 42
2026-06-06	9	6th

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.