Number 17

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 2/10 · since Sep 2025 rules — 152 draws, 5 from 1–35.

10times drawn · chance expected 22 −2.72σ

30draws waiting · a wait this long: 1% for any number

11.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

34longest completed wait · 5% chance of one at least that long

17 looks unusual on its own — and unremarkable among 35 numbers

Drawn 10 times in 152 draws against 21.7 expected, −2.72σ. Testing all 35 numbers at once means about 0.4 should look this way by luck alone, so the threshold tightens to 2.9e-4 and this does not pass it.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 152 draws · average wait 11.8 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 30 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 0.7
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.8
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.0
4th smallest4 · chance 2.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 1 9 11 12 24

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 35. 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
2026-07-13	21	1st	17 18 23 30 33
2026-05-25	1	2nd	2 17 20 24 32
2026-05-22	5	3rd	3 9 17 27 31
2026-05-11	11	3rd	3 16 17

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 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.