Number 43

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

14times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.93σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

22longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 4 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 0.0
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.3
4th smallest6 · chance 4.0
5th smallest4 · chance 5.6
6th smallest3 · chance 2.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 8 45 10 36 53

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 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
2026-09-26	1	4th	2 36 40 43 44 50
2026-09-23	17	6th	6 8 14 22 38 43
2026-07-25	7	6th	9 13 26 28 29 43
2026-07-01	1	5th	5 10

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.