Number 43

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 146 draws, 6 from 1–46.

10times drawn · chance expected 19 −2.22σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

14.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

39longest completed wait · 4% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 146 draws against 19.0 expected, −2.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 146 draws · average wait 14.2 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 12 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 0.3
5th smallest2 · chance 2.7
6th smallest7 · chance 7.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 37 6 11 34 41

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 46. 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
2026-08-28	5	6th	5 11 15 22 30 43
2026-08-11	7	6th	1 6 18 34 37 43
2026-07-17	4	4th	15 27 38 43 45 46

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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.