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Ontario 49 · every number

42

Number 42

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 97 draws, 6 from 1–49.

6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 20256/49 + 1/46 · Sep 2024 – Nov 2025
13times drawn · chance expected 12 +0.35σ
7draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number
6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2
15longest completed wait · 88% chance of one at least that long
42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 97 draws against 11.9 expected, +0.35σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 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.

42

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 97 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 15 · waiting 7 draws now

7 draws: 2025-12-24 to 2026-01-171 draws: 2026-01-17 to 2026-01-213 draws: 2026-01-21 to 2026-01-316 draws: 2026-01-31 to 2026-02-211 draws: 2026-02-21 to 2026-02-254 draws: 2026-02-25 to 2026-03-1110 draws: 2026-03-11 to 2026-04-156 draws: 2026-04-15 to 2026-05-069 draws: 2026-05-06 to 2026-06-0615 draws: 2026-06-06 to 2026-07-2911 draws: 2026-07-29 to 2026-09-058 draws: 2026-09-05 to 2026-10-03Still waiting — at least 7 draws since 2026-10-032025-12-242026-01-172026-01-212026-01-312026-02-212026-02-252026-03-112026-04-152026-05-062026-06-062026-07-292026-09-052026-10-032025-11-262026-10-28

a completed wait — darker is longer the wait still running — a lower bound, not a finished gap

1 draws: 2 times2 draws: 0 times3 draws: 1 time4 draws: 1 time5 draws: 0 times6 draws: 2 times7 draws: 1 time8 draws: 1 time9 draws: 1 time10 draws: 1 time11 draws: 1 time12 draws: 0 times13 draws: 0 times14 draws: 0 times15 draws: 1 time16 draws: 0 times17 draws: 0 times18 draws: 0 times19 draws: 0 times20 draws: 0 times21 draws: 0 times22 draws: 0 times23 draws: 0 times24 draws: 0 timesits own waitsdraws between appearances

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 smallest1 · chance 0.2
  • 4th smallest2 · chance 1.7
  • 5th smallest5 · chance 5.4
  • 6th smallest5 · chance 5.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29113153243

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 49. 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

DateWaitPositionThe draw
2026-10-0385th121519294247
2026-09-05116th111213152942
2026-07-29156th112027283242
2026-06-0696th142026354142
2026-05-0666th71319212942
2026-04-15105th101528324244
2026-03-1145th173033354244
2026-02-2514th61836424349
2026-02-2164th182240424546
2026-01-3135th61013394245
2026-01-2115th12324364243
2026-01-1773rd13242434749
2025-12-24—6th11722294142
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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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.