Number 2

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 151 draws, 5 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.92σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 72% for any number

12.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

34longest completed wait · 27% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 151 draws against 15.4 expected, −0.92σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 151 draws · average wait 12.8 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 4 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 smallest10 · chance 11.0
2nd smallest2 · chance 1.0
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 17 36 1 8 24

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 18 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 — 6th most popular of 49. 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
2026-10-19	8	1st	2 8 17 20 35
2026-10-11	19	1st	2 5 14 36 41
2026-09-22	2	1st	2 13 24 28 36
2026-09-20	34	2nd	1 2

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.