Number 2

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 443 draws, 7 from 1–35.

90times drawn · chance expected 89 +0.17σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

4.9average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

17longest completed wait · 92% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 90 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 90 times in 443 draws · average wait 4.9 draws · longest completed wait 17 · waiting 1 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 74.1
2nd smallest17 · chance 15.9
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 15.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

25 7 17 6 9 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 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 35. 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
2026-10-01	1	1st	2 3 6 10 11 16 24
2026-09-24	2	2nd	1 2 3 7 18 22 32
2026-09-10	13	1st	2 11 24 28 29 32 34

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 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-01-11	4	1st	2 5 16 25 30 32 34
2023-12-14	2	1st	2 4 6 8 18 22 30
2023-11-30	9	2nd	1 2 11 19 23 30 34
2023-09-28	2	1st	2 3 14 15 26 27 28
2023-09-14	13	1st	2 5 6 10 17 19 31
2023-06-15	6	1st	2 9 11 13 20 25 31
2023-05-04	13	1st	2 13 18 20 31 34 35
2023-02-02	9	1st	2 7 15 21 24 31 35
2022-12-01	4	1st	2 4 5 7 8 29 34
2022-11-03	1	1st	2 6 8 12 22 24 32
2022-10-27	6	1st	2 4 7 10 12 18 34
2022-09-15	4	1st	2 9 10 13 22 31 35
2022-08-18	4	2nd	1 2 4 20 22 23 27
2022-07-21	4	1st	2 7 8 9 24 25 26
2022-06-23	2	1st	2 7 9 10 22 31 35
2022-06-09	5	1st	2 3 6 13 20 23 34
2022-05-05	3	1st	2 12 16 17 26 30 35
2022-04-14	4	1st	2 3 5 11 14 20 31
2022-03-17	2	1st	2 7 13 17 19 23 25
2022-03-03	7	1st	2 4 12 18 24 27 28
2022-01-13	9	1st	2 9 13 24 28 29 33
2021-11-11	3	2nd	1 2 3 4 15 17 20
2021-10-21	3	1st	2 7 11 17 27 28 30
2021-09-30	3	1st	2 7 14 18 24 25 27
2021-09-09	3	1st	2 3 6 8 17 20 23
2021-08-19	10	1st	2 7 8 9 10 26 30
2021-06-10	2	1st	2 13 15 24 25 32 35
2021-05-27	1	1st	2 5 6 10 12 24 25
2021-05-20	15	1st	2 5 7 8 11 14 18
2021-02-04	3	1st	2 6 18 29 30 33 34
2021-01-14	1	2nd	1 2 17 20 26 27 31
2021-01-07	1	1st	2 3 7 17 20 22 23
2020-12-31	8	2nd	1 2 7 8 11 16 28
2020-11-05	1	1st	2 3 13 14 21 24 35
2020-10-29	2	2nd	1 2 10 16 24 28 31
2020-10-15	5	1st	2 7 9 15 27 31 32
2020-09-10	2	1st	2 8 9 10 19 23 29
2020-08-27	7	1st	2 13 14 16 18 23 28
2020-07-09	13	1st	2 21 26 28 31 32 33
2020-04-09	8	1st	2 4 12 18 19 27 34
2020-02-13	1	1st	2 5 7 14 25 29 32
2020-02-06	5	2nd	1 2 3 11 15 26 35
2020-01-02	6	1st	2 3 9 21 25 27 35
2019-11-21	5	2nd	1 2 3 12 13 23 25
2019-10-17	2	1st	2 6 7 9 21 22 25
2019-10-03	4	1st	2 11 15 20 22 25 29
2019-09-05	9	1st	2 4 14 16 19 27 29
2019-07-04	1	1st	2 15 20 21 22 27 28
2019-06-27	3	1st	2 7 17 21 27 32 35
2019-06-06	5	1st	2 7 8 11 31 33 35
2019-05-02	1	1st	2 4 6 8 9 11 33
2019-04-25	1	1st	2 5 9 11 23 25 33
2019-04-18	2	2nd	1 2 4 11 17 21 30
2019-04-04	3	1st	2 12 14 16 21 25 33
2019-03-14	2	1st	2 5 8 17 20 24 27
2019-02-28	5	1st	2 4 5 7 11 13 14
2019-01-24	10	1st	2 8 17 19 23 29 35
2018-11-15	8	1st	2 7 16 18 23 25 29
2018-09-20	1	1st	2 6 8 10 17 20 30
2018-09-13	3	2nd	1 2 17 19 22 34 35
2018-08-23	5	1st	2 6 9 14 18 28 29
2018-07-19	3	1st	2 4 22 23 24 25 29
2018-06-28	1	1st	2 4 7 17 25 28 34
2018-06-21	1	1st	2 5 9 13 24 31 35
2018-06-14	3	1st	2 6 7 14 16 29 31
2018-05-24	—	1st	2 12 14 18 19 23 25