Number 2

In Lotto under the 6/52 + 1/52 · Aug 2017 – Sep 2025 rules — 847 draws, 6 from 1–52 (an earlier era).

92times drawn · chance expected 98 −0.62σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 38% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.7

42longest completed wait · 45% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 92 times in 847 draws against 97.7 expected, −0.62σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 20 times, counted separately.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 92 times in 847 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 42 · waiting 9 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 smallest85 · chance 83.0
2nd smallest7 · chance 9.0
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 9.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

46 33 23 18 28 42

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 51 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 52. 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
2025-08-20	1	1st	2 14 16 19 41 43
2025-08-16	1	1st	2 15 17 22 23 50
2025-08-13	7	1st	2 4 19 34 38 50
2025-07-19	15	1st

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 6/52 tonight whatever it did last week.

2022-11-16	14	1st	2 4 12 23 42 46
2022-09-28	6	1st	2 12 15 29 31 47
2022-09-07	21	1st	2 10 17 28 40 44
2022-06-25	3	1st	2 8 19 29 35 43
2022-06-15	7	1st	2 19 24 36 45 50
2022-05-21	12	1st	2 3 7 20 28 37
2022-04-09	17	1st	2 5 11 27 42 46
2022-02-09	12	1st	2 18 20 28 35 44
2021-12-29	4	1st	2 4 17 39 43 46
2021-12-11	6	1st	2 12 14 16 28 51
2021-11-20	14	1st	2 21 23 26 32 42
2021-10-02	2	1st	2 15 27 33 43 44
2021-09-25	1	1st	2 7 10 38 47 48
2021-09-22	4	1st	2 8 27 28 32 50
2021-09-08	2	1st	2 4 18 19 20 28
2021-09-01	6	1st	2 14 23 33 36 42
2021-08-11	13	1st	2 5 25 32 48 51
2021-06-26	13	1st	2 5 11 15 29 33
2021-05-12	1	1st	2 11 13 20 31 42
2021-05-08	14	1st	2 12 15 24 26 43
2021-03-20	15	1st	2 14 21 46 49 50
2021-01-27	8	1st	2 3 13 15 38 42
2020-12-30	4	1st	2 10 19 36 38 42
2020-12-16	11	2nd	1 2 29 33 36 50
2020-11-07	1	1st	2 4 14 15 28 46
2020-11-04	5	1st	2 14 17 24 34 51
2020-10-17	2	1st	2 4 7 28 41 48
2020-10-10	34	1st	2 22 33 41 42 48
2020-06-13	6	1st	2 3 12 13 32 47
2020-05-23	9	1st	2 11 18 20 35 48
2020-04-22	4	2nd	1 2 14 20 33 38
2020-04-08	23	1st	2 8 18 29 42 43
2020-01-18	9	1st	2 8 18 46 48 49
2019-12-14	12	1st	2 3 6 23 34 49
2019-11-02	8	1st	2 4 13 20 33 46
2019-10-05	3	1st	2 12 23 24 25 43
2019-09-25	16	2nd	1 2 5 6 10 49
2019-07-31	13	1st	2 3 10 18 45 48
2019-06-15	1	1st	2 4 9 13 32 39
2019-06-12	6	2nd	1 2 31 34 43 50
2019-05-22	6	1st	2 3 23 24 50 52
2019-05-01	11	1st	2 6 10 30 42 45
2019-03-23	2	1st	2 33 34 38 40 46
2019-03-16	6	1st	2 12 31 34 47 51
2019-02-23	10	1st	2 3 13 25 40 52
2019-01-19	8	1st	2 7 17 24 39 46
2018-12-22	5	1st	2 19 24 39 45 51
2018-12-05	2	1st	2 8 11 25 26 28
2018-11-28	6	1st	2 4 20 38 40 45
2018-11-07	4	1st	2 8 29 35 42 47
2018-10-24	16	1st	2 18 20 22 32 34
2018-08-29	2	1st	2 10 14 28 29 46
2018-08-22	5	1st	2 3 21 23 41 46
2018-08-04	1	1st	2 14 21 28 36 42
2018-08-01	2	1st	2 8 18 24 27 49
2018-07-25	8	1st	2 6 18 23 27 48
2018-06-27	6	1st	2 4 6 37 39 40
2018-06-06	6	1st	2 6 10 15 27 48
2018-05-16	10	2nd	1 2 22 31 36 48
2018-04-11	9	1st	2 10 24 33 35 46
2018-03-10	7	1st	2 3 5 11 17 23
2018-02-14	13	1st	2 18 28 40 45 46
2017-12-30	4	1st	2 23 28 33 34 46
2017-12-16	6	1st	2 11 17 18 22 42
2017-11-25	3	1st	2 7 25 35 44 51
2017-11-15	15	1st	2 22 36 37 42 49
2017-09-23	2	1st	2 19 31 33 43 52
2017-09-16	—	1st	2 7 10 33 37 44