Number 17

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

11times drawn · chance expected 10 +0.51σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 39% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

34longest completed wait · 38% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, +0.51σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 11 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 smallest6 · chance 2.7
2nd smallest3 · chance 5.0
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 31 40 16 30 38

Never drawn alongside 21 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 21 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
2026-07-25	2	2nd	16 17 34 39
2026-07-11	3	1st	17 23 30 38
2026-06-20	6	3rd	2 7 17 40
2026-05-09	7	1st	17 31 37 41

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.