Number 17

In Jackpot Triple Play under the 6/46 · Feb 2019 – Apr 2022 rules — 337 draws, 6 from 1–46 (an earlier era).

52times drawn · chance expected 44 +1.30σ

6draws waiting · a wait this long: 50% for any number

6.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.7

35longest completed wait · 36% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 52 times in 337 draws against 44.0 expected, +1.30σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 52 times in 337 draws · average wait 6.4 draws · longest completed wait 35 · waiting 6 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 smallest4 · chance 5.1
2nd smallest13 · chance 16.2
3rd smallest22 · chance 18.7
4th smallest10 · chance 9.7
5th smallest3 · chance 2.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

40 31 43 2 16 3

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 45 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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
2022-04-01	1	3rd	3 13 17 22 27 42
2022-03-29	1	2nd	10 17 18 35 43 46
2022-03-25	10	3rd	2 15 17 23 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 6/46 tonight whatever it did last week.

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Reading the draws and working out what chance predicts.

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 smallest4 · chance 5.1

2nd smallest13 · chance 16.2

3rd smallest22 · chance 18.7

4th smallest10 · chance 9.7

5th smallest3 · chance 2.2

6th smallest0 · chance 0.2

How many people play it

Numbers 1–31 — the birthday zone ×1.22

Date

Wait

Position

The draw

2022-04-01

3rd

3 13 17 22 27 42

2022-03-29

2nd

10 17 18 35 43 46

2022-03-25

3rd

2 15 17 23 34

2020-12-01	4	3rd	2 13 17 25 37 40
2020-11-17	1	4th	8 10 13 17 26 46
2020-11-13	3	3rd	8 11 17 25 37 39
2020-11-03	4	3rd	15 16 17 20 27 43
2020-10-20	1	2nd	14 17 19 26 39 46
2020-10-16	5	2nd	16 17 26 40 43 45
2020-09-29	10	4th	3 5 10 17 18 22
2020-08-25	1	3rd	3 15 17 26 32 33
2020-08-21	2	3rd	2 15 17 21 31 34
2020-08-14	13	4th	10 11 16 17 33 44
2020-06-30	3	1st	17 18 25 31 35 41
2020-06-19	1	3rd	2 4 17 25 33 44
2020-06-16	7	3rd	3 5 17 25 35 38
2020-05-22	35	4th	6 7 15 17 20 46
2020-01-21	6	5th	2 7 13 14 17 36
2019-12-31	19	1st	17 34 41 43 44 45
2019-10-25	3	4th	3 12 16 17 18 46
2019-10-15	6	4th	2 14 16 17 40 44
2019-09-24	26	3rd	3 8 17 31 37 40
2019-06-25	1	3rd	2 9 17 23 28 37
2019-06-21	5	4th	3 5 6 17 37 44
2019-06-04	6	2nd	7 17 18 22 30 35
2019-05-14	4	3rd	3 5 17 23 31 41
2019-04-30	2	2nd	8 17 21 25 31 43
2019-04-23	8	2nd	10 17 21 29 31 40
2019-03-26	4	3rd	4 7 17 30 33 43
2019-03-12	8	3rd	11 16 17 19 39 44
2019-02-12	—	1st	17 19 38 40 43 46