Number 43

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 232 draws, 5 from 1–58.

18times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.47σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

12.7average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

33longest completed wait · 62% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 232 draws against 20.0 expected, −0.47σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 232 draws · average wait 12.7 draws · longest completed wait 33 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 0.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 0.9
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.1
4th smallest6 · chance 7.8
5th smallest4 · chance 5.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

16 50 17 18 26 48

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 — 34th most popular of 58. 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
2026-10-11	8	2nd	35 43 44 45 49
2026-10-03	23	4th	8 33 39 43 57
2026-09-10	8	3rd	7 16 43 50 58
2026-09-02	17	3rd	7 23

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.