Number 17

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 16 −1.11σ

10draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number

11.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

33longest completed wait · 30% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −1.11σ. Each draw is independent: after 10 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 159 draws · average wait 11.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 10 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 17 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 smallest3 · chance 2.2
2nd smallest6 · chance 4.9
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.7
4th smallest0 · chance 1.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

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.

46 5 8 10 19 20

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 18 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 17 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 17 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-07	1	2nd	9 17 25 32 41
2026-09-03	33	2nd	13 17 18 36 46
2026-05-11	4	1st	17 19 20 30 31
2026-04-27	6	3rd	5 6 17 33

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: 17 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.