Number 17

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 146 draws, 6 from 1–46.

9times drawn · chance expected 19 −2.47σ

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

14.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

33longest completed wait · 9% chance of one at least that long

17 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 46 numbers

Drawn 9 times in 146 draws against 19.0 expected, −2.47σ. Testing all 46 numbers at once means about 0.5 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.2e-4 and this does not pass it.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 146 draws · average wait 14.5 draws · longest completed wait 33 · 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 smallest2 · chance 0.9
2nd smallest3 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.2
4th smallest0 · chance 1.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 41 22 15 16 23

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 17 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 46. 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
2026-10-06	21	2nd	15 17 22 31 35 36
2026-07-24	3	3rd	4 15 17 23 28 31
2026-07-14	21	2nd	1 17 20 29 32 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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.