Number 43

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

8times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.59σ

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

4.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

11longest completed wait · 85% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.59σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 49 draws · average wait 4.6 draws · longest completed wait 11 · 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 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 0.0
4th smallest1 · chance 0.4
5th smallest4 · chance 1.8
6th smallest2 · chance 3.4
7th smallest1 · chance 2.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 50 52 7 13 16

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 20 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 — 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 43 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-25	4	7th	12 14 21 27 36 42 43
2026-09-11	6	5th	7 8 11 30 43 45 47
2026-08-21	2	4th	11 21 34 43 44 45

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.