Number 43

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

9times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.31σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 19% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

20longest completed wait · 37% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −1.31σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 96 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 12 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 0.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest1 · chance 0.3
5th smallest2 · chance 1.5
6th smallest3 · chance 3.8
7th smallest3 · chance 3.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

41 1 5 9 10 13

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 16 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 50. 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
2026-03-10	19	7th	5 7 9 21 34 38 43
2026-01-02	3	5th	10 19 29 41 43 44 50
2025-12-23	20	7th	1 14 27 28 39

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.