Number 42

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–45.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.45σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

18longest completed wait · 75% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws against 14.4 expected, +0.45σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 18 · waiting 15 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 0.5
5th smallest10 · chance 4.5
6th smallest6 · chance 11.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 43 5 9 21 25

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 45. 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
2026-07-04	4	5th	2 5 9 25 42 45
2026-06-06	11	6th	2 6 11 17 40 42
2026-03-21	2	5th	5 8 20 27 42 45
2026-03-07	9	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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.