Number 43

In Euro Millions Plus under the 5/50 · since Sep 2024 rules — 211 draws, 5 from 1–50.

16times drawn · chance expected 21 −1.17σ

22draws waiting · a wait this long: 11% for any number

12.3average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

51longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 211 draws against 21.1 expected, −1.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 22 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 211 draws · average wait 12.3 draws · longest completed wait 51 · waiting 22 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 0.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.4
4th smallest4 · chance 6.1
5th smallest10 · chance 8.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 27 21 30 36 49

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 13 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
2026-07-24	9	5th	2 20 30 33 43
2026-06-23	6	4th	7 9 27 43 50
2026-06-02	51	3rd	2 16 43 46 49
2025-12-05	11	5th	10 18

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.