Number 17

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 110 draws, 4 from 1–35.

15times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.73σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 48% for any number

7.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

20longest completed wait · 77% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 110 draws against 12.6 expected, +0.73σ. 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 15 times in 110 draws · average wait 7.1 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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 smallest1 · chance 2.0
2nd smallest5 · chance 6.1
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.4
4th smallest1 · chance 1.4

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 2 10 12 13 30

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 9 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
2026-09-17	6	2nd	10 17 18 33
2026-08-27	16	3rd	2 10 17 30
2026-07-02	20	2nd	1 17 28 30
2026-04-23	1	2nd	13 17 29 30
2026-04-20	3

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.