In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/8 · Mar 2012 – Oct 2014 rules — 133 draws, 5 from 1–50 (an earlier era).
10times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.95σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number
12.7average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0
48longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long
42 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 10 times in 133 draws against 13.3 expected, −0.95σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
42
Number 42, draw by draw
Drawn 10 times in 133 draws · average wait 12.7 draws · longest completed wait 48 · waiting 6 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 23 of the other 49 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 — 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.