In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 163 draws, 1 from 1–7.
33times drawn · chance expected 23 +2.17σ
6draws waiting · a wait this long: 46% for any number
4.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0
13longest completed wait · >99% chance of one at least that long
2 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 33 times in 163 draws against 23.3 expected, +2.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 6 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
2
Number 2, draw by draw
Drawn 33 times in 163 draws · average wait 4.8 draws · longest completed wait 13 · 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 2 has a favourite seat — chance gives a small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 6 numbers; chance expects about 6 such strangers by now. Every pair →
How many people play it
Under the crowd model, 2 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 3rd most popular of 7. 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: 2 is drawn with probability 1/7 tonight whatever it did last week.