Number 17

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

79times drawn · chance expected 88 −1.00σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

70longest completed wait · 1.0% chance of one at least that long

17 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, −1.00σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 17, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 720 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 70 · waiting 11 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 9.2
2nd smallest31 · chance 28.0
3rd smallest32 · chance 28.6
4th smallest11 · chance 11.6
5th smallest1 · chance 1.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 25 5 33 34 37

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 41. 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
2023-10-06	11	4th	1 5 12 17 29
2023-09-25	7	2nd	4 17 18 20 37
2023-09-18	1	3rd	5 12 17 24 33
2023-09-17	15	3rd	11 16 17

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-03-18	6	3rd	5 12 17 21 22
2023-03-12	27	2nd	15 17 24 30 37
2023-02-13	5	3rd	3 10 17 26 30
2023-02-08	5	2nd	14 17 26 33 40
2023-02-03	1	2nd	2 17 25 33 36
2023-02-02	10	3rd	3 8 17 20 21
2023-01-23	5	3rd	1 5 17 26 41
2023-01-18	2	3rd	6 14 17 23 31
2023-01-16	3	4th	7 8 10 17 38
2023-01-13	1	1st	17 25 27 38 40
2023-01-12	9	2nd	5 17 30 35 37
2023-01-03	7	3rd	8 15 17 25 34
2021-12-27	13	3rd	5 16 17 28 35
2021-12-14	28	3rd	2 7 17 20 26
2021-11-16	11	4th	3 6 7 17 25
2021-11-05	17	2nd	13 17 22 36 40
2021-10-19	6	2nd	10 17 24 25 33
2021-10-13	4	2nd	15 17 31 33 40
2021-10-09	4	1st	17 22 30 32 37
2021-10-05	4	3rd	8 10 17 25 36
2021-10-01	1	4th	1 7 8 17 24
2021-09-30	17	3rd	2 15 17 34 40
2021-09-13	16	3rd	11 15 17 22 24
2021-08-28	8	3rd	3 6 17 22 26
2021-08-20	3	1st	17 26 34 38 41
2021-08-17	9	4th	2 6 10 17 33
2021-08-08	1	4th	4 5 13 17 24
2021-08-07	15	2nd	4 17 20 27 36
2021-07-23	2	4th	2 3 7 17 25
2021-07-21	70	3rd	4 11 17 19 30
2021-05-12	2	2nd	16 17 25 26 37
2021-05-10	4	2nd	15 17 25 34 38
2021-05-06	10	3rd	9 12 17 24 29
2021-04-26	26	2nd	14 17 18 19 21
2021-03-31	4	2nd	12 17 21 32 36
2021-03-27	17	3rd	1 15 17 19 21
2021-03-10	5	3rd	9 10 17 18 22
2021-03-05	5	2nd	16 17 19 27 30
2021-02-28	14	4th	14 15 16 17 21
2021-02-14	2	2nd	6 17 32 39 41
2021-02-12	6	1st	17 18 23 29 31
2021-02-06	1	2nd	6 17 19 30 37
2021-02-05	14	2nd	4 17 28 30 33
2021-01-22	5	2nd	8 17 23 25 37
2021-01-17	3	5th	3 5 8 14 17
2021-01-14	1	3rd	1 3 17 31 37
2021-01-13	12	2nd	12 17 26 28 37
2021-01-01	5	3rd	13 16 17 21 32
2020-12-27	32	3rd	1 4 17 30 35
2020-11-25	1	2nd	10 17 18 34 38
2020-11-24	7	2nd	6 17 27 31 33
2020-11-17	3	3rd	3 12 17 18 31
2020-11-14	12	3rd	3 5 17 27 31
2020-11-02	3	2nd	10 17 24 26 35
2020-10-30	—	4th	3 10 12 17 39