Number 42

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

71times drawn · chance expected 66 +0.63σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0

56longest completed wait · 31% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 71 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, +0.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 71 times in 727 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 56 · 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 42 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 0.2
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.6
3rd smallest15 · chance 14.4
4th smallest33 · chance 31.1
5th smallest19 · chance 22.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

50 3 7 8 20 33

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 54 numbers; chance expects about 0.3 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 42 is picked about 0.86× as often as an indifferent choice — 34th 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 42 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-12	18	4th	5 30 40 42 54
2026-09-24	48	3rd	20 36 42 43 53
2026-08-07	2	4th	6 23 31 42 45
2026-08-05	11	4th	1 22 24

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

2026-02-03	3	4th	3 12 28 42 55
2026-01-31	18	3rd	9 20 42 45 55
2026-01-13	10	4th	19 26 31 42 50
2026-01-03	2	5th	6 35 39 40 42
2026-01-01	6	5th	14 20 24 29 42
2025-12-26	18	5th	9 17 21 41 42
2025-12-07	5	3rd	4 8 42 50 55
2025-12-02	25	3rd	10 30 42 54 55
2025-10-29	12	4th	12 22 23 42 48
2025-10-16	4	4th	20 21 35 42 50
2025-10-10	1	4th	11 20 34 42 43
2025-10-09	4	4th	30 33 38 42 48
2025-10-05	3	2nd	18 42 50 51 53
2025-10-02	11	4th	4 31 40 42 55
2025-09-21	6	4th	10 12 23 42 46
2025-09-15	1	4th	12 15 22 42 51
2025-09-14	12	5th	7 11 24 35 42
2025-09-02	4	5th	12 13 17 33 42
2025-08-29	9	3rd	39 41 42 50 52
2025-08-20	3	4th	22 32 41 42 50
2025-08-17	7	4th	15 19 39 42 46
2025-08-10	2	5th	6 13 23 34 42
2025-08-08	16	4th	6 8 31 42 51
2025-07-23	9	5th	3 5 33 34 42
2025-07-14	7	5th	6 10 21 24 42
2025-07-07	1	4th	2 25 29 42 43
2025-07-06	15	4th	30 33 35 42 47
2025-06-21	12	2nd	38 42 47 49 50
2025-06-09	6	5th	10 25 32 35 42
2025-06-03	10	2nd	29 42 43 50 52
2025-05-24	37	5th	1 4 8 36 42
2025-04-17	3	3rd	19 39 42 51 52
2025-04-14	6	4th	9 25 29 42 47
2025-04-08	13	4th	2 7 18 42 50
2025-03-26	21	3rd	17 41 42 50 55
2025-03-05	2	3rd	24 40 42 48 51
2025-03-03	26	3rd	11 23 42 46 51
2025-02-05	1	5th	8 17 37 41 42
2025-02-04	11	3rd	2 30 42 49 54
2025-01-24	6	3rd	3 40 42 49 54
2025-01-18	10	4th	3 19 22 42 48
2025-01-08	13	4th	23 30 37 42 52
2024-12-26	8	5th	8 10 27 31 42
2024-12-18	4	4th	7 17 28 42 43
2024-12-14	56	5th	2 15 29 34 42
2024-10-19	2	3rd	11 14 42 44 52
2024-10-17	—	4th	13 27 36 42 44