Number 42

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

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.02σ

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

6.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

20longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.2 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest1 · chance 1.8
6th smallest14 · chance 13.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

18 4 8 23 31 1

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 — 33rd 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-17	5	6th	17 18 19 29 40 42
2026-08-31	3	6th	1 4 18 35 41 42
2026-08-20	8	6th	8 11 18 19 23 42
2026-07-23	2	6th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.