Number 17

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.25σ

26draws waiting · a wait this long: 2% for any number

5.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

16longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, +0.25σ. Each draw is independent: after 26 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 99 draws · average wait 5.1 draws · longest completed wait 16 · waiting 26 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 smallest1 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest3 · chance 4.1
3rd smallest6 · chance 5.5
4th smallest3 · chance 3.4
5th smallest2 · chance 0.9
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 10 13 29 34 15

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 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
2026-07-11	3	3rd	3 9 17 20 22 29
2026-07-01	14	3rd	3 9 17 21 35 36
2026-05-13	3	2nd	13 17 26 34 37 38
2026-05-02	7	5th

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.