Number 42

In Québec Max under the 7/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 49 draws, 7 from 1–52.

10times drawn · chance expected 7 +1.42σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

4.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

10longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +1.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 49 draws · average wait 4.3 draws · longest completed wait 10 · waiting 4 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 smallest0 · chance 0.1
4th smallest2 · chance 0.7
5th smallest1 · chance 2.5
6th smallest4 · chance 4.2
7th smallest3 · chance 2.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 27 35 37 3 5

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 — 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 42 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	1	6th	12 14 21 27 36 42 43
2026-09-22	10	7th	9 14 27 33 37 39 42
2026-08-18	8	6th	3 6 17 37 41 42

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.