Number 17

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

94times drawn · chance expected 92 +0.26σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

43longest completed wait · 13% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 94 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, +0.26σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 94 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 43 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest9 · chance 6.7
2nd smallest19 · chance 25.4
3rd smallest36 · chance 34.6
4th smallest24 · chance 21.1
5th smallest6 · chance 5.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

12 7 10 20 31 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 42. 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
2026-10-10	12	2nd	2 17 22 24 29 42
2026-08-29	4	3rd	13 15 17 20 41 42
2026-08-15	13	2nd	13 17 19 26 29 31
2026-07-01	3	3rd	2

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-10-12	3	3rd	4 12 17 20 25 27
2024-10-02	5	2nd	11 17 18 21 23 39
2024-09-14	2	5th	5 10 11 14 17 40
2024-09-07	2	3rd	3 8 17 28 31 36
2024-08-31	9	3rd	12 13 17 29 36 38
2024-07-31	1	4th	3 6 10 17 22 37
2024-07-27	4	4th	7 8 14 17 20 32
2024-07-13	1	4th	7 8 12 17 35 40
2024-07-10	9	1st	17 20 22 30 33 34
2024-06-08	1	1st	17 22 23 30 38 39
2024-06-05	6	3rd	5 10 17 30 33 39
2024-05-15	2	3rd	8 16 17 19 20 25
2024-05-08	8	4th	1 2 3 17 21 29
2024-04-10	1	1st	17 18 27 34 38 42
2024-04-06	14	3rd	8 12 17 29 31 33
2024-02-17	8	5th	5 7 8 10 17 30
2024-01-20	7	3rd	7 14 17 28 37 39
2023-12-27	8	2nd	1 17 31 35 41 42
2023-11-29	4	3rd	4 7 17 21 27 36
2023-11-15	12	4th	2 4 11 17 20 39
2023-10-04	1	3rd	2 10 17 32 36 38
2023-09-30	6	3rd	7 10 17 20 21 22
2023-09-09	15	3rd	7 12 17 18 30 40
2023-07-19	9	3rd	5 15 17 26 30 41
2023-06-17	3	4th	1 13 14 17 34 40
2023-06-07	9	2nd	12 17 21 25 28 41
2023-05-06	3	1st	17 21 22 25 30 42
2023-04-26	1	4th	9 12 13 17 36 41
2023-04-22	12	3rd	4 7 17 18 19 39
2023-03-11	7	5th	6 9 11 13 17 19
2023-02-15	2	4th	1 5 11 17 22 31
2023-02-08	2	1st	17 22 23 34 35 40
2023-02-01	1	4th	10 11 12 17 33 42
2023-01-28	1	3rd	4 11 17 23 24 31
2023-01-25	1	1st	17 22 30 37 39 42
2023-01-21	2	4th	4 12 15 17 22 31
2023-01-14	3	2nd	2 17 32 36 39 42
2023-01-04	6	3rd	2 16 17 24 34 35
2022-12-14	4	5th	10 14 15 16 17 37
2022-11-30	10	2nd	3 17 21 22 24 37
2022-10-26	9	3rd	2 4 17 23 24 27
2022-09-24	1	3rd	2 4 17 28 34 42
2022-09-21	4	2nd	14 17 21 27 31 41
2022-09-07	21	2nd	16 17 18 27 31 37
2022-06-25	5	3rd	3 15 17 18 27 29
2022-06-08	13	2nd	13 17 18 20 22 25
2022-04-23	3	2nd	14 17 18 37 38 41
2022-04-13	2	3rd	11 16 17 25 26 33
2022-04-06	10	3rd	10 13 17 22 34 38
2022-03-02	1	3rd	10 14 17 26 28 42
2022-02-26	3	2nd	8 17 23 28 32 33
2022-02-16	3	4th	8 9 14 17 22 35
2022-02-05	10	3rd	1 8 17 21 37 42
2022-01-01	1	1st	17 20 28 30 33 37
2021-12-29	4	4th	1 7 11 17 21 39
2021-12-11	1	4th	3 8 11 17 27 32
2021-12-08	43	3rd	9 14 17 30 35 38
2021-07-10	1	2nd	1 17 20 25 28 37
2021-07-07	7	5th	7 8 11 16 17 34
2021-06-12	1	4th	3 12 13 17 21 29
2021-06-09	15	3rd	7 14 17 24 26 29
2021-04-17	7	1st	17 27 29 30 31 35
2021-03-24	5	4th	1 10 12 17 28 41
2021-03-06	2	4th	7 10 12 17 29 31
2021-02-27	25	3rd	12 16 17 20 27 36
2020-12-02	5	3rd	7 8 17 34 37 42
2020-11-14	2	3rd	10 13 17 19 25 33
2020-11-07	3	4th	9 11 12 17 19 35
2020-10-28	14	4th	3 12 15 17 20 29
2020-09-09	—	4th	6 9 15 17 25 33