Number 42

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.90σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

20longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, −0.90σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 99 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 1 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 smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest11 · chance 11.0

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.

13 5 7 16 19 21

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 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

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

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-07	1	6th	10 14 19 26 37 42
2026-10-03	13	6th	15 25 32 38 41 42
2026-08-19	7	6th	14 15 19 26 31 42
2026-07-25	12	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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.