Number 17

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 641 draws, 5 from 1–34.

108times drawn · chance expected 94 +1.53σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 73% for any number

5.8average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

21longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 108 times in 641 draws against 94.3 expected, +1.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 108 times in 641 draws · average wait 5.8 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 3 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 smallest4 · chance 6.3
2nd smallest27 · chance 28.7
3rd smallest39 · chance 43.1
4th smallest29 · chance 25.1
5th smallest9 · chance 4.8

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 24 16 3 13 20

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 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 34. 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
2026-10-08	1	4th	13 14 16 17 34
2026-10-07	8	4th	3 5 10 17 30
2026-09-29	10	4th	7 12 13 17 30
2026-09-19	3	5th	1 3 10 14

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-03	2	2nd	9 17 21 23 32
2026-05-01	6	2nd	5 17 25 26 34
2026-04-25	2	4th	6 10 16 17 28
2026-04-23	11	4th	9 13 16 17 31
2026-04-12	1	4th	5 10 15 17 24
2026-04-11	2	3rd	1 13 17 26 27
2026-04-09	21	3rd	3 14 17 32 33
2026-03-19	11	3rd	6 10 17 25 32
2026-03-08	2	3rd	3 14 17 24 33
2026-03-06	14	2nd	4 17 23 28 32
2026-02-20	1	2nd	9 17 21 25 32
2026-02-19	8	4th	8 9 16 17 32
2026-02-11	6	3rd	4 8 17 29 32
2026-02-05	2	4th	7 14 16 17 34
2026-02-03	6	3rd	5 12 17 24 28
2026-01-28	1	3rd	6 15 17 20 33
2026-01-27	1	2nd	6 17 19 21 30
2026-01-26	4	5th	1 3 12 16 17
2026-01-22	4	2nd	10 17 22 29 30
2026-01-18	13	5th	3 6 9 16 17
2026-01-05	1	1st	17 21 22 24 29
2026-01-04	3	2nd	5 17 21 33 34
2026-01-01	12	3rd	3 12 17 26 32
2025-12-20	1	4th	1 5 15 17 33
2025-12-19	3	4th	1 10 16 17 22
2025-12-16	1	1st	17 27 29 30 31
2025-12-15	3	4th	3 5 12 17 28
2025-12-12	8	3rd	5 13 17 20 25
2025-12-04	12	2nd	12 17 18 20 23
2025-11-22	9	5th	2 3 8 13 17
2025-11-13	6	5th	2 3 7 9 17
2025-11-07	6	2nd	7 17 18 20 32
2025-11-01	4	5th	2 3 9 10 17
2025-10-28	4	2nd	2 17 23 24 33
2025-10-24	2	3rd	5 15 17 24 34
2025-10-22	5	4th	2 6 12 17 34
2025-10-17	10	4th	2 8 15 17 33
2025-10-07	5	3rd	2 14 17 27 34
2025-10-02	5	2nd	4 17 29 31 33
2025-09-27	5	4th	3 4 13 17 24
2025-09-22	3	2nd	7 17 26 30 33
2025-09-19	8	2nd	4 17 22 24 25
2025-09-11	2	3rd	15 16 17 30 31
2025-09-09	3	4th	7 13 14 17 27
2025-09-06	1	3rd	5 12 17 22 23
2025-09-05	10	1st	17 23 26 29 31
2025-08-26	2	3rd	12 16 17 18 31
2025-08-24	3	3rd	5 11 17 27 32
2025-08-21	5	3rd	11 12 17 20 26
2025-08-16	9	3rd	3 6 17 27 33
2025-08-07	5	2nd	14 17 20 24 27
2025-08-02	11	2nd	1 17 20 24 30
2025-07-22	7	3rd	5 12 17 22 33
2025-07-15	6	3rd	2 6 17 24 29
2025-07-09	2	2nd	16 17 20 21 33
2025-07-07	5	3rd	8 10 17 21 24
2025-07-02	2	5th	1 2 3 5 17
2025-06-30	3	5th	4 8 13 15 17
2025-06-27	1	4th	1 3 14 17 24
2025-06-26	19	3rd	6 9 17 22 34
2025-06-07	14	2nd	9 17 18 33 34
2025-05-24	2	4th	7 11 15 17 26
2025-05-22	3	3rd	3 8 17 20 27
2025-05-19	5	4th	2 7 15 17 29
2025-05-14	2	3rd	1 9 17 31 32
2025-05-12	3	2nd	16 17 20 22 29
2025-05-09	12	3rd	5 8 17 18 19
2025-04-27	1	3rd	14 16 17 20 32
2025-04-26	4	3rd	5 6 17 28 30
2025-04-22	16	4th	5 10 12 17 18
2025-04-06	6	2nd	10 17 25 27 28
2025-03-31	8	2nd	5 17 20 21 24
2025-03-23	11	2nd	13 17 26 32 34
2025-03-12	7	5th	2 8 9 11 17
2025-03-05	12	3rd	2 11 17 26 33
2025-02-21	1	1st	17 18 28 30 33
2025-02-20	6	3rd	6 8 17 20 25
2025-02-14	3	4th	10 11 13 17 22
2025-02-11	2	3rd	12 16 17 24 34
2025-02-09	3	4th	8 13 15 17 33
2025-02-06	10	3rd	7 15 17 20 32
2025-01-27	1	4th	4 12 16 17 25
2025-01-26	4	2nd	16 17 24 27 31
2025-01-22	—	3rd	8 15 17 21 23