Number 17

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

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.93σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 49% for any number

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

25longest completed wait · 28% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 11 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 6 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 1.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.3
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.0
4th smallest3 · chance 2.1
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 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 3 5 8 14 30

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 13 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
2026-08-30	3	3rd	3 14 17 28 30 36
2026-08-09	7	4th	3 6 14 17 21 26
2026-06-21	4	2nd	7 17 18 30 43 45

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.