Number 17

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.42σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

21longest completed wait · 42% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.42σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 96 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 2 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 1.0
2nd smallest2 · chance 3.3
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.2
4th smallest3 · chance 2.6
5th smallest1 · chance 0.8
6th smallest1 · chance 0.1
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 14 34 46 16 21

Never drawn alongside 10 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 11 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 50. 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
2026-04-14	6	4th	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-03-24	2	3rd	6 15 17 22 29 45 46
2026-03-17	13	2nd	14 17 30 32 34

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.