Number 2

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 794 draws, 5 from 1–47.

75times drawn · chance expected 84 −1.09σ

12draws waiting · a wait this long: 29% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

50longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 75 times in 794 draws against 84.5 expected, −1.09σ. Each draw is independent: after 12 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 75 times in 794 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 50 · waiting 12 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 smallest73 · chance 68.5
2nd smallest2 · chance 6.5
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 6.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 34 30 4 6 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 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 47. 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
2026-09-10	14	1st	2 11 23 43 44
2026-07-23	24	1st	2 6 10 18 30
2026-04-30	7	1st	2 6 13 27 38
2026-04-06	1	2nd	1 2 11 26

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

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