Number 2

In Cash 5 under the 5/45 · since Oct 2023 rules — 1,100 draws, 5 from 1–45.

125times drawn · chance expected 122 +0.27σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.0

44longest completed wait · 54% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 125 times in 1,100 draws against 122.2 expected, +0.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 125 times in 1,100 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 44 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest117 · chance 113.6
2nd smallest8 · chance 11.4
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 11.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

39 44 45 42 34 20

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 44 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 45. 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
2026-10-22	20	1st	2 12 21 34 43
2026-10-02	12	1st	2 16 26 31 38
2026-09-20	1	1st	2 7 16 39 44
2026-09-19	18	1st	2 14 20 27

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 5/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-08	10	1st	2 3 13 22 43
2026-03-29	8	1st	2 10 13 18 31
2026-03-21	11	1st	2 22 36 37 45
2026-03-10	1	1st	2 4 18 42 43
2026-03-09	2	1st	2 4 18 23 41
2026-03-07	2	2nd	1 2 17 27 33
2026-03-05	32	1st	2 8 21 25 33
2026-02-01	11	1st	2 20 33 39 41
2026-01-21	11	1st	2 5 10 18 40
2026-01-10	5	1st	2 25 33 40 42
2026-01-05	12	1st	2 19 25 40 45
2025-12-24	3	1st	2 4 28 30 45
2025-12-21	9	1st	2 27 29 33 43
2025-12-12	11	1st	2 6 12 24 40
2025-12-01	10	1st	2 9 17 30 39
2025-11-21	3	1st	2 11 17 20 41
2025-11-18	3	1st	2 8 20 34 41
2025-11-15	5	1st	2 12 19 35 36
2025-11-10	9	1st	2 9 10 15 39
2025-11-01	1	1st	2 9 23 24 42
2025-10-31	4	1st	2 20 23 32 45
2025-10-27	1	1st	2 12 13 19 33
2025-10-26	6	1st	2 5 7 8 16
2025-10-20	1	1st	2 6 18 31 32
2025-10-19	3	1st	2 16 26 32 39
2025-10-16	14	1st	2 22 23 26 43
2025-10-02	2	2nd	1 2 25 34 43
2025-09-30	5	1st	2 5 6 22 25
2025-09-25	3	1st	2 20 24 35 37
2025-09-22	4	1st	2 11 15 39 42
2025-09-18	11	1st	2 24 34 35 45
2025-09-07	4	1st	2 7 12 39 44
2025-09-03	8	1st	2 5 25 35 39
2025-08-26	43	1st	2 17 32 35 45
2025-07-14	12	1st	2 4 7 17 26
2025-07-02	2	1st	2 7 11 21 27
2025-06-30	6	1st	2 4 31 36 44
2025-06-24	6	1st	2 17 21 32 36
2025-06-18	2	1st	2 23 39 42 44
2025-06-16	25	1st	2 13 16 19 20
2025-05-22	13	1st	2 10 29 43 44
2025-05-09	3	1st	2 9 16 29 35
2025-05-06	3	1st	2 15 22 31 44
2025-05-03	6	1st	2 20 28 40 44
2025-04-27	9	1st	2 5 10 13 19
2025-04-18	4	1st	2 9 14 38 43
2025-04-14	13	1st	2 9 13 16 20
2025-04-01	5	1st	2 18 19 22 36
2025-03-27	34	1st	2 10 15 32 45
2025-02-21	3	1st	2 31 32 34 42
2025-02-18	5	1st	2 5 10 36 44
2025-02-13	2	1st	2 23 34 36 43
2025-02-11	1	2nd	1 2 3 11 33
2025-02-10	1	1st	2 12 21 35 42
2025-02-09	8	1st	2 16 23 26 35
2025-02-01	2	2nd	1 2 21 32 39
2025-01-30	2	1st	2 3 27 39 44
2025-01-28	4	1st	2 7 12 28 44
2025-01-24	8	1st	2 4 8 15 36
2025-01-16	14	1st	2 5 16 24 39
2025-01-02	2	2nd	1 2 15 19 28
2024-12-31	6	1st	2 8 16 20 29
2024-12-25	19	1st	2 18 24 27 32
2024-12-06	2	1st	2 12 36 41 43
2024-12-04	22	1st	2 3 22 30 38
2024-11-12	10	1st	2 21 30 33 42
2024-11-02	6	1st	2 23 24 27 41
2024-10-27	2	1st	2 4 11 21 39
2024-10-25	12	1st	2 3 14 29 45
2024-10-13	10	1st	2 5 10 24 35
2024-10-03	1	1st	2 16 19 24 45
2024-10-02	39	1st	2 29 31 39 42
2024-08-24	21	1st	2 12 21 32 45
2024-08-03	16	1st	2 18 22 28 42
2024-07-18	1	1st	2 7 18 25 28
2024-07-17	12	1st	2 3 11 34 40
2024-07-05	4	1st	2 7 8 15 34
2024-07-01	12	2nd	1 2 22 31 40
2024-06-19	4	1st	2 17 19 21 44
2024-06-15	9	1st	2 5 14 39 45
2024-06-06	20	1st	2 7 18 28 41
2024-05-17	4	1st	2 11 24 39 40
2024-05-13	6	1st	2 21 33 34 44
2024-05-07	1	1st	2 10 12 16 31
2024-05-06	9	1st	2 11 25 27 43
2024-04-27	26	1st	2 6 9 31 32
2024-04-01	4	1st	2 10 23 26 40
2024-03-28	3	1st	2 9 23 33 38
2024-03-25	8	1st	2 27 31 35 37
2024-03-17	8	1st	2 8 38 40 45
2024-03-09	1	1st	2 18 22 25 36
2024-03-08	29	1st	2 15 22 23 41
2024-02-08	5	1st	2 12 30 34 40
2024-02-03	4	1st	2 6 7 12 25
2024-01-30	44	1st	2 6 28 29 35
2023-12-17	3	1st	2 3 28 34 42
2023-12-14	31	1st	2 9 23 31 44
2023-11-13	2	2nd	1 2 6 8 28
2023-11-11	10	1st	2 22 29 38 42
2023-11-01	3	1st	2 28 33 34 44
2023-10-29	—	1st	2 4 10 25 29