Number 17

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

8times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.97σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 47% for any number

13.0average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

29longest completed wait · 29% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.97σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 107 draws · average wait 13.0 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 8 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 1.4
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.4
4th smallest1 · chance 0.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 26 3 29 31 33

Never drawn alongside 27 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 28 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 58. 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
2026-09-12	5	1st	17 24 26 30 39 45
2026-08-26	6	3rd	3 8 17 19 26 46
2026-08-05	16	1st	17 23 29 31 33 40
2026-06-10	4	3rd	15 16

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.