In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 162 draws, 5 from 1–49.
22times drawn · chance expected 17 +1.42σ
2draws waiting · a wait this long: 90% for any number
7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8
29longest completed wait · 65% chance of one at least that long
43 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 22 times in 162 draws against 16.5 expected, +1.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
43
Number 43, draw by draw
Drawn 22 times in 162 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 2 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.
Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 — 33rd most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.