Number 2

In SuperEnalotto under the 6/90 + 1/90 · Dec 1997 – Jul 2009 rules — 1,425 draws, 6 from 1–90 (an earlier era).

93times drawn · chance expected 95 −0.21σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

15.4average wait between appearances · chance says 15.0

88longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 93 times in 1,425 draws against 95.0 expected, −0.21σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 93 times in 1,425 draws · average wait 15.4 draws · longest completed wait 88 · waiting 3 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 smallest83 · chance 87.8
2nd smallest10 · chance 5.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 82 3 4 23 38

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 0.5 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 90. 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
2009-06-23	22	1st	2 3 37 38 58 59
2009-05-02	8	1st	2 25 31 38 45 84
2009-04-14	2	1st	2 5 20 43 64 83

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 6/90 tonight whatever it did last week.

2007-11-13	11	2nd	1 2 33 62 68 79
2007-10-18	9	1st	2 24 51 55 62 81
2007-09-27	42	1st	2 23 46 48 55 63
2007-06-21	1	1st	2 10 35 67 77 90
2007-06-19	19	2nd	1 2 26 41 65 80
2007-05-05	13	1st	2 3 64 69 73 82
2007-04-05	41	1st	2 17 60 77 85 86
2006-12-30	4	1st	2 20 32 51 53 83
2006-12-21	11	1st	2 10 30 43 56 83
2006-11-25	2	2nd	1 2 4 44 75 80
2006-11-21	8	1st	2 3 35 41 48 88
2006-11-02	18	1st	2 4 5 9 22 75
2006-09-21	9	1st	2 8 27 30 35 87
2006-08-31	22	1st	2 11 17 33 79 87
2006-07-11	10	1st	2 12 19 25 31 76
2006-06-17	54	1st	2 8 43 48 60 67
2006-02-11	88	2nd	1 2 8 30 42 43
2005-07-21	1	1st	2 7 16 26 34 80
2005-07-19	4	1st	2 15 39 57 62 73
2005-07-09	15	1st	2 13 18 51 52 55
2005-05-28	22	1st	2 3 10 15 31 61
2005-03-12	17	1st	2 8 30 74 76 88
2005-01-12	4	1st	2 12 16 20 24 79
2004-12-29	13	1st	2 24 49 56 76 78
2004-11-13	13	1st	2 21 33 38 45 46
2004-09-29	1	1st	2 11 22 25 60 78
2004-09-25	2	1st	2 49 56 76 86 89
2004-09-18	15	1st	2 21 24 27 42 68
2004-07-28	14	1st	2 13 22 53 60 85
2004-06-09	10	2nd	1 2 26 31 42 64
2004-05-05	1	1st	2 22 37 46 57 74
2004-05-03	33	1st	2 7 24 56 82 85
2004-01-07	9	1st	2 33 41 56 62 74
2003-12-06	5	2nd	1 2 18 27 43 47
2003-11-19	6	1st	2 11 23 31 40 86
2003-10-29	17	1st	2 12 20 52 54 63
2003-08-30	21	1st	2 5 36 61 86 88
2003-06-18	12	1st	2 12 26 30 65 74
2003-05-07	1	2nd	1 2 4 19 26 89
2003-05-03	31	1st	2 6 12 17 19 63
2003-01-15	9	1st	2 46 49 56 82 84
2002-12-21	23	1st	2 27 52 65 70 82
2002-10-12	53	2nd	1 2 8 12 48 66
2002-04-10	60	1st	2 28 43 57 79 90
2001-09-15	39	1st	2 14 38 53 56 71
2001-05-02	1	1st	2 45 59 70 75 82
2001-04-28	2	1st	2 14 32 43 44 55
2001-04-21	5	1st	2 7 12 31 38 71
2001-04-04	3	1st	2 23 48 57 63 89
2001-03-24	14	1st	2 8 24 36 80 84
2001-02-03	2	1st	2 8 13 39 47 89
2001-01-27	25	1st	2 6 18 20 49 83
2000-11-02	2	1st	2 55 76 78 81 85
2000-10-25	6	1st	2 38 39 41 61 76
2000-10-04	34	1st	2 3 15 16 24 67
2000-06-07	15	1st	2 4 23 38 53 59
2000-04-15	7	1st	2 27 33 47 53 86
2000-03-22	16	1st	2 19 22 57 65 89
2000-01-26	6	1st	2 57 62 63 73 87
2000-01-05	62	1st	2 13 31 37 38 82
1999-06-02	69	1st	2 16 17 65 69 72
1998-10-03	28	1st	2 9 13 34 46 63
1998-06-27	32	1st	2 16 38 40 44 57
1998-03-07	7	1st	2 12 57 62 64 71
1998-02-11	4	1st	2 15 63 65 68 78
1998-01-28	7	1st	2 3 49 51 63 79
1998-01-03	7	1st	2 29 36 72 82 90
1997-12-10	1	2nd	1 2 14 23 78 88
1997-12-06	—	1st	2 4 25 29 30 52