In Big Sky Bonus under the 4/28 · Apr 2016 – Nov 2016 rules — 227 draws, 4 from 1–28 (an earlier era).
30times drawn · chance expected 32 −0.46σ
23draws waiting · a wait this long: 3% for any number
6.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0
27longest completed wait · 41% chance of one at least that long
17 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 30 times in 227 draws against 32.4 expected, −0.46σ. Each draw is independent: after 23 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
17
Number 17, draw by draw
Drawn 30 times in 227 draws · average wait 6.9 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 23 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 27 numbers; chance expects about 1.0 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 — 14th most popular of 28. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 4/28 tonight whatever it did last week.