Number 43

In Lotto under the 6/45 + 1/45 · Jan 2010 – Oct 2015 rules — 601 draws, 6 from 1–45 (an earlier era).

77times drawn · chance expected 80 −0.38σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

31longest completed wait · 65% chance of one at least that long

43 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 601 draws against 80.1 expected, −0.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 12 times, counted separately.

Number 43, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 601 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 3 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 0.8
5th smallest15 · chance 15.9
6th smallest61 · chance 60.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 12 35 39 40 2

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 — 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 43 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2015-09-23	4	6th	5 6 14 16 32 43
2015-09-09	8	5th	2 6 21 26 43 45
2015-08-12	10	6th	2 8 18 21 28 43
2015-07-08	1	6th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2014-04-19	13	6th	13 16 22 26 36 43
2014-03-05	4	6th	4 19 24 25 27 43
2014-02-19	6	5th	1 6 24 33 43 44
2014-01-29	7	6th	2 12 21 27 39 43
2014-01-04	5	6th	4 25 35 38 42 43
2013-12-18	4	6th	1 6 32 37 41 43
2013-12-04	4	4th	13 16 31 43 44 45
2013-11-20	6	6th	7 15 24 29 35 43
2013-10-30	4	6th	9 14 15 22 24 43
2013-10-16	5	6th	12 19 30 38 40 43
2013-09-28	4	6th	19 24 32 33 37 43
2013-09-14	8	6th	5 9 15 31 35 43
2013-08-17	7	5th	4 11 16 33 43 45
2013-07-24	7	6th	7 9 10 39 42 43
2013-06-29	9	6th	12 17 19 22 28 43
2013-05-29	12	6th	6 12 14 16 33 43
2013-04-17	8	6th	16 25 31 39 40 43
2013-03-20	3	6th	16 22 31 33 34 43
2013-03-09	7	6th	2 3 20 29 39 43
2013-02-13	3	6th	3 12 29 38 41 43
2013-02-02	13	6th	4 12 15 27 36 43
2012-12-19	5	6th	8 23 24 27 35 43
2012-12-01	1	6th	2 11 17 40 42 43
2012-11-28	8	6th	2 11 28 29 37 43
2012-10-31	6	6th	14 16 20 22 31 43
2012-10-10	21	5th	1 10 17 18 43 44
2012-07-28	2	6th	6 11 25 33 40 43
2012-07-21	2	5th	10 34 35 37 43 44
2012-07-14	5	6th	13 25 26 41 42 43
2012-06-27	11	6th	1 17 22 23 40 43
2012-05-19	18	6th	1 5 17 22 35 43
2012-03-17	8	6th	9 17 36 38 40 43
2012-02-18	27	5th	3 10 25 38 43 44
2011-11-16	7	6th	5 9 11 13 28 43
2011-10-22	7	5th	4 10 21 32 43 44
2011-09-28	1	6th	5 10 15 27 35 43
2011-09-24	6	6th	2 7 19 23 33 43
2011-09-03	4	6th	11 12 21 38 41 43
2011-08-20	17	6th	1 13 29 34 42 43
2011-06-22	8	6th	6 9 10 22 32 43
2011-05-25	4	6th	4 12 14 37 41 43
2011-05-11	1	6th	28 34 37 39 41 43
2011-05-07	24	5th	7 12 24 36 43 45
2011-02-12	12	6th	9 10 16 26 38 43
2011-01-01	2	6th	8 9 10 28 30 43
2010-12-24	5	6th	2 8 21 38 39 43
2010-12-08	29	6th	10 19 29 30 41 43
2010-08-28	3	5th	13 23 30 37 43 45
2010-08-18	3	6th	1 4 20 31 34 43
2010-08-07	5	5th	1 23 32 40 43 44
2010-07-21	2	6th	1 11 23 35 39 43
2010-07-14	8	6th	5 13 31 36 42 43
2010-06-16	—	6th	26 27 36 38 40 43