Number 17

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · since May 2025 rules — 149 draws, 6 from 1–46.

10times drawn · chance expected 19 −2.30σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

13.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

33longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 149 draws against 19.4 expected, −2.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 149 draws · average wait 13.3 draws · longest completed wait 33 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest3 · chance 1.0
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest4 · chance 3.6
4th smallest0 · chance 1.9
5th smallest0 · chance 0.4
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 41 22 26 30 44

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 45 numbers; chance expects about 15 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 46. 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
2026-10-20	4	1st	17 20 26 30 35 44
2026-10-06	21	2nd	15 17 22 31 35 36
2026-07-24	3	3rd	4 15 17 23 28 31

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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.