OK I will help you all out of your misery.
No, there is not a negative number. I have a list from 1-50 here, and there are a fair number that have not yet been guessed. The winning number is 32 and there have been people with 31 (BettyDee) and 33 (Patti 1957) - so now we have to figure out what to do about THAT. I guess I will go check how many seeds there are...