Number 42

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–45.

6times drawn · chance expected 15 −2.40σ

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

17.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

34longest completed wait · 4% chance of one at least that long

42 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 109 draws against 14.5 expected, −2.40σ. 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 4 times, counted separately.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 109 draws · average wait 17.0 draws · longest completed wait 34 · 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 0.2
5th smallest2 · chance 1.7
6th smallest4 · chance 4.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 7 9 12 29 37

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 22 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
2026-07-12	5	5th	2 6 7 41 42 45
2026-06-07	34	6th	2 3 9 13 37 42
2025-10-12	8	6th	14 26 29 32 38 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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.