Number 17

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

14times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.33σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 41% for any number

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

36longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, −0.33σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 109 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 36 · waiting 7 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 1.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.9
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.1
4th smallest4 · chance 3.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 8 7 11 19 41

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 43. 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
2026-09-17	4	1st	17 18 19 29 40 42
2026-09-03	2	4th	6 8 9 17 19 25
2026-08-27	6	3rd	3 7 17 36 40 41
2026-08-06	9	4th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.