Number 40

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

71times drawn · chance expected 92 −2.34σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number

9.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

40longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 71 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, −2.34σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 40, draw by draw

Drawn 71 times in 642 draws · average wait 9.0 draws · longest completed wait 40 · 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 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.9
5th smallest11 · chance 15.6
6th smallest60 · chance 54.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 11 33 4 30 37

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 42. 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
2026-09-19	1	6th	2 4 11 14 16 40
2026-09-16	8	6th	10 11 27 28 36 40
2026-08-19	35	6th	13 14 24 28 36 40
2026-04-18	4	6th	14

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-07-13	5	6th	7 8 12 17 35 40
2024-06-26	9	6th	1 8 11 36 37 40
2024-05-25	9	6th	12 15 16 26 30 40
2024-04-24	1	6th	5 6 20 26 38 40
2024-04-20	2	5th	16 25 30 32 40 42
2024-04-13	40	5th	2 5 11 38 40 42
2023-11-25	22	6th	14 22 28 33 35 40
2023-09-09	2	6th	7 12 17 18 30 40
2023-09-02	8	6th	2 16 26 31 37 40
2023-08-05	1	6th	22 27 30 32 38 40
2023-08-02	13	6th	5 9 15 29 31 40
2023-06-17	19	6th	1 13 14 17 34 40
2023-04-12	6	6th	18 19 23 32 38 40
2023-03-22	12	6th	1 20 21 34 35 40
2023-02-08	6	6th	17 22 23 34 35 40
2023-01-18	11	6th	14 20 21 33 35 40
2022-12-10	9	6th	12 25 28 32 37 40
2022-11-09	25	6th	24 26 27 35 39 40
2022-08-13	2	5th	7 16 23 36 40 41
2022-08-06	5	6th	6 15 16 31 36 40
2022-07-20	4	6th	11 19 28 30 39 40
2022-07-06	1	6th	9 11 24 25 34 40
2022-07-02	8	6th	8 9 13 22 38 40
2022-06-04	13	6th	1 6 31 33 35 40
2022-04-20	3	6th	4 13 26 30 34 40
2022-04-09	8	6th	9 20 22 37 38 40
2022-03-12	1	5th	5 31 34 38 40 42
2022-03-09	16	6th	3 4 11 35 37 40
2022-01-12	25	5th	6 11 20 31 40 41
2021-10-13	9	6th	2 4 6 24 37 40
2021-09-11	20	6th	1 12 21 25 27 40
2021-07-03	14	6th	6 12 13 14 33 40
2021-05-15	6	6th	10 11 19 28 33 40
2021-04-24	4	6th	2 7 16 34 37 40
2021-04-10	2	6th	7 16 22 30 38 40
2021-04-03	4	6th	8 10 29 32 37 40
2021-03-20	10	5th	14 19 26 29 40 42
2021-02-13	2	5th	16 22 25 32 40 41
2021-02-06	6	6th	1 12 15 23 30 40
2021-01-16	3	6th	1 4 12 18 37 40
2021-01-06	14	6th	15 21 25 29 32 40
2020-11-18	2	6th	2 7 23 24 33 40
2020-11-11	8	6th	9 21 23 31 33 40
2020-10-14	6	6th	10 22 32 33 39 40
2020-09-23	2	6th	2 7 8 15 31 40
2020-09-16	3	6th	1 5 30 32 35 40
2020-09-05	—	5th	4 16 18 34 40 42