Number 43

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

18times drawn · chance expected 18 +0.06σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 77% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

22longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +0.06σ. 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 18 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 0.2
4th smallest4 · chance 1.8
5th smallest6 · chance 7.1
6th smallest8 · chance 8.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 19 41 46 5 8

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 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
2026-09-30	22	4th	9 18 35 43 44 46
2026-07-15	11	6th	7 8 21 35 41 43
2026-06-06	11	5th	2 15 28 40 43 49
2026-04-29	6	4th	13

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.