Number 40

In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 727 draws, 5 from 1–55.

74times drawn · chance expected 66 +1.02σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

9.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0

51longest completed wait · 46% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 74 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, +1.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 40, draw by draw

Drawn 74 times in 727 draws · average wait 9.8 draws · longest completed wait 51 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 40 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 0.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.2
3rd smallest19 · chance 18.2
4th smallest29 · chance 32.1
5th smallest22 · chance 19.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 24 35 3 31 54

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 54 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 40 is picked about 0.90× as often as an indifferent choice — 32nd most popular of 55. 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
Round numbers (multiples of 10) ×1.05

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 40 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-12	3	3rd	5 30 40 42 54
2026-10-09	3	5th	2 12 15 18 40
2026-10-06	3	4th	10 11 13 40 53
2026-10-03	6	5th	14 20 36

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: 40 is drawn with probability 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-12-29	4	4th	2 5 16 40 51
2025-12-25	5	3rd	3 8 40 41 51
2025-12-19	6	3rd	10 38 40 44 52
2025-12-13	31	5th	8 15 16 35 40
2025-11-03	13	5th	14 16 31 37 40
2025-10-21	16	5th	23 24 26 35 40
2025-10-02	32	3rd	4 31 40 42 55
2025-08-31	13	5th	12 13 15 32 40
2025-08-18	7	4th	23 24 30 40 50
2025-08-11	11	5th	5 19 27 29 40
2025-07-31	6	4th	7 16 39 40 53
2025-07-25	31	3rd	29 36 40 45 55
2025-06-24	2	3rd	15 18 40 48 54
2025-06-22	3	5th	3 8 24 36 40
2025-06-19	2	4th	3 11 31 40 48
2025-06-17	3	5th	2 7 23 34 40
2025-06-14	2	4th	11 36 37 40 54
2025-06-12	4	4th	15 26 39 40 51
2025-06-08	9	4th	3 27 35 40 54
2025-05-30	2	4th	15 21 34 40 52
2025-05-28	1	5th	12 16 27 35 40
2025-05-27	4	3rd	19 27 40 45 54
2025-05-23	21	5th	12 13 19 29 40
2025-05-02	5	4th	16 19 22 40 47
2025-04-27	16	3rd	7 10 40 47 52
2025-04-11	12	4th	1 23 32 40 47
2025-03-30	15	4th	2 14 31 40 46
2025-03-15	1	5th	6 22 24 27 40
2025-03-14	8	5th	11 16 31 37 40
2025-03-06	1	4th	10 23 28 40 54
2025-03-05	1	2nd	24 40 42 48 51
2025-03-04	3	2nd	17 40 43 50 51
2025-03-01	8	5th	5 10 22 31 40
2025-02-21	20	3rd	11 23 40 44 49
2025-02-01	2	2nd	26 40 43 45 53
2025-01-30	2	3rd	28 39 40 50 55
2025-01-28	4	3rd	11 35 40 49 51
2025-01-24	2	2nd	3 40 42 49 54
2025-01-22	15	4th	10 14 21 40 52
2025-01-07	10	5th	2 17 21 30 40
2024-12-28	4	4th	9 15 16 40 45
2024-12-24	25	4th	19 24 31 40 55
2024-11-29	1	4th	7 12 13 40 55
2024-11-28	2	5th	18 20 24 33 40
2024-11-26	1	5th	20 30 32 33 40
2024-11-25	17	4th	22 30 36 40 44
2024-11-08	5	4th	16 35 37 40 52
2024-11-03	2	3rd	24 31 40 41 44
2024-11-01	25	5th	8 25 35 39 40
2024-10-07	—	5th	6 10 12 16 40