Number 42

In MyDaY under the 3/99 · Apr 2010 – Aug 2026 rules — 5,628 draws, 3 from 0–99 (an earlier era).

50times drawn · chance expected 169 −9.29σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 83% for any number

113.5average wait between appearances · chance says 33.3

594longest completed wait · <0.1% chance of one at least that long

42 deviates beyond what chance explains for a pool of 100

Drawn 50 times in 5,628 draws against 168.8 expected, −9.29σ. It passes even the threshold tightened for testing every number at once. Read the draw-by-draw history below before reading anything into it — and it still says nothing about the next draw.

Number 42, draw by draw

Drawn 50 times in 5,628 draws · average wait 113.5 draws · longest completed wait 594 · waiting 7 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 16.5
2nd smallest0 · chance 24.7
3rd smallest50 · chance 8.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 12 7 8 2 4

Never drawn alongside 74 of the other 99 numbers; chance expects about 36 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 — 39th most popular of 100. 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
2026-08-15	55	3rd	2 18 42
2026-06-21	29	3rd	12 18 42
2026-05-23	152	3rd	2 17 42
2025-12-22	594	3rd	12 19 42
2024-05-07	46	3rd	1 7 42
2024-03-22

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 3/100 tonight whatever it did last week.

2019-05-23	74	3rd	8 15 42
2019-03-10	182	3rd	7 30 42
2018-09-09	277	3rd	6 25 42
2017-12-06	54	3rd	9 12 42
2017-10-13	2	3rd	2 15 42
2017-10-11	15	3rd	3 11 42
2017-09-26	51	3rd	8 13 42
2017-08-06	48	3rd	6 8 42
2017-06-19	17	3rd	1 12 42
2017-06-02	411	3rd	9 24 42
2016-03-14	142	3rd	2 8 42
2015-09-30	248	3rd	4 16 42
2014-12-13	258	3rd	12 18 42
2014-02-15	60	3rd	4 15 42
2013-12-07	53	3rd	5 25 42
2013-10-07	18	3rd	3 22 42
2013-09-16	30	3rd	3 8 42
2013-08-12	29	3rd	7 24 42
2013-07-09	44	3rd	3 15 42
2013-05-18	292	3rd	5 13 42
2012-06-12	95	3rd	3 21 42
2012-02-21	80	3rd	9 10 42
2011-11-19	206	3rd	4 12 42
2011-03-22	165	3rd	6 8 42
2010-09-10	70	3rd	3 9 42
2010-06-21	—	3rd	2 24 42