Number 17

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

10times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.21σ

15draws waiting · a wait this long: 13% for any number

9.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

32longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −1.21σ. Each draw is independent: after 15 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 6 times, counted separately.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.8 draws · longest completed wait 32 · waiting 15 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 0.9
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.6
4th smallest3 · chance 1.9
5th smallest1 · chance 0.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 18 19 6 7 10

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 44 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 45. 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
2026-06-27	3	2nd	6 17 23 34 39 45
2026-06-06	32	4th	2 6 11 17 40 42
2025-10-25	1	4th	5 10 15 17 19 36
2025-10-18	15	5th

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.