Number 42

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 4 from 1–45.

6times drawn · chance expected 10 −1.22σ

45draws waiting · a wait this long: 2% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

23longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 108 draws against 9.6 expected, −1.22σ. Each draw is independent: after 45 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 108 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 45 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 0.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.1
4th smallest5 · chance 4.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 40 10 17 20 23

Never drawn alongside 28 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 29 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
2025-12-06	2	4th	24 28 32 42
2025-11-22	5	4th	10 27 30 42
2025-10-18	12	3rd	20 37 42 43
2025-07-26	1	4th	17 31 40 42

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.