Number 43

In Mega Millions under the 5/70 + 1/24 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–70.

16times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.46σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 64% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 14.0

30longest completed wait · 84% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 158 draws against 11.3 expected, +1.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 158 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 7 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 0.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 2.3
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.6
4th smallest4 · chance 5.7
5th smallest2 · chance 2.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

58 6 11 18 34 36

Never drawn alongside 28 of the other 69 numbers; chance expects about 27 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 — 36th most popular of 70. 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
2026-09-15	2	3rd	27 36 43 57 58
2026-09-08	11	3rd	17 30 43 58 66
2026-07-31	17	4th	4 18 26 43 51
2026-06-02	12	3rd	15 26 43

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 5/70 tonight whatever it did last week.