In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/10 · Oct 2014 – Mar 2022 rules — 389 draws, 5 from 1–50 (an earlier era).
40times drawn · chance expected 39 +0.19σ
5draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number
9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0
33longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long
42 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 40 times in 389 draws against 38.9 expected, +0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
42
Number 42, draw by draw
Drawn 40 times in 389 draws · average wait 9.6 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 5 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.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 2 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 — 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.
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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.