Number 43

In Western Max under the 7/50 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 7 from 1–50.

13times drawn · chance expected 20 −1.75σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

34longest completed wait · 8% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws against 20.3 expected, −1.75σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 6 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 smallest3 · chance 2.2
6th smallest7 · chance 5.5
7th smallest2 · chance 4.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 47 9 16 18 33

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 50. 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
2026-09-18	16	6th	5 18 23 27 40 43 46
2026-07-24	5	6th	7 9 11 18 31 43 47
2026-07-07	1	5th	6 10 26 33 43 48

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.