Number 2

In Lotto Max under the 7/50 + 1/50 · May 2019 – Apr 2026 rules — 722 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

106times drawn · chance expected 101 +0.53σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

30longest completed wait · 74% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 106 times in 722 draws against 101.1 expected, +0.53σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 13 times, counted separately.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 106 times in 722 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 2 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.

1st smallest89 · chance 93.0
2nd smallest17 · chance 13.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 35 21 32 44 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 — 6th most popular of 50. 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 2 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-04-03	4	1st	2 4 6 25 38 44 47
2026-03-20	24	1st	2 14 25 31 36 41 47
2025-12-26	30	1st	2 6 14 20 43 46

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: 2 is drawn with probability 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-07-05	8	1st	2 6 14 19 25 27 44
2024-06-07	3	1st	2 3 12 15 32 33 36
2024-05-28	5	1st	2 6 9 21 22 32 43
2024-05-10	4	1st	2 4 14 28 29 30 43
2024-04-26	10	1st	2 3 23 36 38 40 48
2024-03-22	5	1st	2 7 19 28 36 37 44
2024-03-05	14	1st	2 4 7 25 33 43 49
2024-01-16	2	1st	2 9 10 14 42 43 44
2024-01-09	6	2nd	1 2 12 20 24 26 28
2023-12-19	1	1st	2 3 4 13 21 35 38
2023-12-15	1	2nd	1 2 13 15 20 21 45
2023-12-12	5	1st	2 6 22 23 28 30 42
2023-11-24	2	1st	2 24 25 28 36 37 46
2023-11-17	9	1st	2 23 28 30 31 33 37
2023-10-17	5	1st	2 7 15 16 18 19 25
2023-09-29	4	1st	2 12 19 26 34 44 46
2023-09-15	7	2nd	1 2 11 27 31 35 44
2023-08-22	5	1st	2 7 12 19 38 42 50
2023-08-04	1	1st	2 11 16 21 32 44 47
2023-08-01	4	1st	2 13 26 28 30 43 46
2023-07-18	4	1st	2 4 5 15 29 40 49
2023-07-04	6	1st	2 9 20 21 23 32 43
2023-06-13	5	2nd	1 2 8 12 24 44 45
2023-05-26	7	1st	2 7 9 12 21 30 37
2023-05-02	1	1st	2 12 22 30 32 35 36
2023-04-28	19	2nd	1 2 12 15 35 39 45
2023-02-21	6	1st	2 14 26 31 35 39 49
2023-01-31	4	1st	2 6 16 23 40 41 48
2023-01-17	11	2nd	1 2 5 6 16 30 45
2022-12-09	1	1st	2 18 20 22 34 43 48
2022-12-06	4	2nd	1 2 3 14 17 19 41
2022-11-22	6	1st	2 10 12 18 19 21 34
2022-11-01	5	1st	2 23 27 34 43 46 49
2022-10-14	8	1st	2 24 27 31 40 43 46
2022-09-16	2	1st	2 13 24 34 39 40 46
2022-09-09	7	2nd	1 2 15 18 29 32 36
2022-08-16	16	2nd	1 2 9 21 32 33 43
2022-06-21	5	1st	2 4 5 22 32 40 50
2022-06-03	6	1st	2 16 17 21 38 43 45
2022-05-13	10	1st	2 22 37 38 39 42 47
2022-04-08	10	2nd	1 2 14 15 21 26 29
2022-03-04	2	1st	2 4 14 18 24 46 47
2022-02-25	2	1st	2 4 17 28 35 44 46
2022-02-18	9	1st	2 3 8 11 12 37 49
2022-01-18	1	1st	2 15 25 28 30 35 38
2022-01-14	19	1st	2 4 7 10 14 21 34
2021-11-09	1	1st	2 8 16 17 19 26 42
2021-11-05	3	1st	2 10 11 17 19 32 42
2021-10-26	1	1st	2 8 10 14 21 36 40
2021-10-22	5	1st	2 11 19 33 44 45 47
2021-10-05	2	1st	2 10 18 19 25 42 48
2021-09-28	7	1st	2 5 8 18 23 31 35
2021-09-03	4	2nd	1 2 4 10 27 33 45
2021-08-20	9	1st	2 6 21 31 34 39 45
2021-07-20	2	1st	2 13 15 19 38 39 46
2021-07-13	8	1st	2 6 12 13 17 36 48
2021-06-15	3	1st	2 8 12 13 14 36 43
2021-06-04	10	1st	2 3 16 28 31 42 47
2021-04-30	7	1st	2 14 27 30 31 35 43
2021-04-06	3	1st	2 14 24 25 35 44 45
2021-03-26	2	1st	2 4 16 24 25 27 49
2021-03-19	10	1st	2 7 8 26 30 43 48
2021-02-12	2	1st	2 5 10 11 14 23 33
2021-02-05	14	2nd	1 2 23 32 35 36 45
2020-12-18	15	1st	2 9 10 22 31 35 49
2020-10-27	1	1st	2 9 11 29 33 39 44
2020-10-23	10	1st	2 8 20 21 29 34 37
2020-09-18	5	1st	2 11 22 25 32 40 44
2020-09-01	3	1st	2 9 29 30 31 35 37
2020-08-21	1	2nd	1 2 5 11 20 30 39
2020-08-18	16	2nd	1 2 16 32 44 46 50
2020-06-23	19	1st	2 3 6 13 37 42 46
2020-04-17	7	1st	2 15 21 29 40 47 50
2020-03-24	5	1st	2 11 16 18 19 20 25
2020-03-06	10	1st	2 9 10 35 41 42 47
2020-01-31	2	1st	2 27 30 39 44 45 49
2020-01-24	12	1st	2 11 14 21 23 34 36
2019-12-13	3	1st	2 12 14 15 26 34 39
2019-12-03	22	1st	2 10 20 30 32 35 50
2019-09-17	24	1st	2 4 17 39 40 43 46
2019-06-25	10	1st	2 14 15 23 27 44 45
2019-05-21	—	1st	2 3 8 18 31 39 50