Number 17

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

18times drawn · chance expected 18 +0.06σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 40% for any number

7.9average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

36longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, +0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 18 times in 145 draws · average wait 7.9 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 8 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 smallest1 · chance 2.1
2nd smallest7 · chance 6.0
3rd smallest9 · chance 6.3
4th smallest1 · chance 2.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.6
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 29 31 1 30 39

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 7 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
2026-09-12	1	3rd	3 8 17 26 44 47
2026-09-09	12	3rd	2 10 17 34 36 48
2026-07-29	36	2nd	14 17 31 39 44 46
2026-03-25	1	3rd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.