In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2025 rules — 505 draws, 5 from 1–49.
31times drawn · chance expected 52 −3.02σ
32draws waiting · a wait this long: 4% for any number
15.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
49longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long
43 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 49 numbers
Drawn 31 times in 505 draws against 51.5 expected, −3.02σ. Testing all 49 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.0e-4 and this does not pass it.
43
Number 43, draw by draw
Drawn 31 times in 505 draws · average wait 15.5 draws · longest completed wait 49 · waiting 32 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.
Never drawn alongside 2 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 4 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.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.