Number 40

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

13times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.57σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

24longest completed wait · 32% chance of one at least that long

40 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.57σ. 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 13 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 24 · 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 smallest1 · chance 0.4
5th smallest4 · chance 3.8
6th smallest8 · chance 8.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 10 22 24 31 36

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers 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 43. 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
2026-09-17	6	5th	17 18 19 29 40 42
2026-08-27	18	5th	3 7 17 36 40 41
2026-06-25	24	6th	10 15 16 21 36 40
2026-04-02	15	5th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.