Number 17

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.23σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

34longest completed wait · 33% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, +0.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 139 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 1 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 smallest0 · chance 2.8
2nd smallest9 · chance 6.1
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.6
4th smallest1 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 15 2 26 29 32

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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
2026-10-10	6	3rd	5 9 17 36 42
2026-10-04	1	2nd	15 17 20 24 32
2026-10-03	1	2nd	3 17 18 27 29
2026-10-02	8	2nd	6 17

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.