Number 2

In Saturday Lotto under the 6/45 + 2/45 · since Jan 2009 rules — 928 draws, 6 from 1–45.

106times drawn · chance expected 124 −1.71σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

66longest completed wait · 1.0% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 106 times in 928 draws against 123.7 expected, −1.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 46 times, counted separately.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 106 times in 928 draws · average wait 8.8 draws · longest completed wait 66 · 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 smallest91 · chance 94.0
2nd smallest15 · chance 12.0
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 12.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 12 13 16 11 30

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
2026-10-10	2	1st	2 15 16 33 41 43
2026-09-26	5	1st	2 6 25 27 31 40
2026-08-22	1	2nd	1 2 9 11 13 20
2026-08-15	3	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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-05-20	2	1st	2 8 11 12 25 32
2023-05-06	17	1st	2 8 13 17 30 35
2023-01-07	17	1st	2 9 11 17 18 38
2022-09-10	2	1st	2 8 11 31 32 45
2022-08-27	22	1st	2 3 6 23 41 42
2022-03-26	3	1st	2 8 13 21 22 33
2022-03-05	4	1st	2 16 18 19 30 40
2022-02-05	16	1st	2 9 10 11 22 37
2021-10-16	13	1st	2 7 17 26 27 38
2021-07-17	2	1st	2 14 30 32 35 38
2021-07-03	5	1st	2 7 27 33 37 42
2021-05-29	3	1st	2 7 16 28 30 42
2021-05-08	2	1st	2 4 9 26 31 41
2021-04-24	4	1st	2 4 8 31 32 44
2021-03-27	13	1st	2 4 12 23 24 35
2020-12-26	5	1st	2 5 11 21 30 32
2020-11-21	11	1st	2 21 27 37 39 42
2020-09-05	2	1st	2 3 13 32 37 38
2020-08-22	5	1st	2 7 9 16 33 43
2020-07-18	37	1st	2 18 21 22 35 43
2019-11-02	1	2nd	1 2 10 12 21 42
2019-10-26	14	1st	2 7 28 29 31 45
2019-07-20	9	1st	2 8 12 18 30 42
2019-05-18	20	1st	2 6 8 36 39 45
2018-12-29	3	1st	2 9 17 30 33 39
2018-12-08	9	1st	2 6 23 25 26 43
2018-10-06	1	2nd	1 2 7 22 34 40
2018-09-29	10	1st	2 9 10 13 16 25
2018-07-21	5	1st	2 4 14 15 16 24
2018-06-16	14	1st	2 8 12 22 26 45
2018-03-10	1	1st	2 4 22 31 34 44
2018-03-03	3	1st	2 21 29 35 36 45
2018-02-10	3	1st	2 7 16 23 27 44
2018-01-20	66	1st	2 5 9 14 31 34
2016-10-15	1	1st	2 8 21 22 31 40
2016-10-08	16	1st	2 3 6 21 26 38
2016-06-18	7	2nd	1 2 13 20 39 44
2016-04-30	8	1st	2 20 22 24 27 30
2016-03-05	3	1st	2 11 20 26 39 45
2016-02-13	5	1st	2 8 25 27 28 43
2016-01-09	12	1st	2 18 20 25 30 36
2015-10-17	21	1st	2 7 10 13 23 24
2015-05-23	9	2nd	1 2 31 38 39 45
2015-03-21	29	1st	2 11 12 16 24 39
2014-08-30	2	1st	2 14 24 37 40 44
2014-08-16	40	1st	2 3 15 16 18 24
2013-11-09	1	1st	2 16 20 27 28 32
2013-11-02	6	1st	2 5 23 32 40 43
2013-09-21	20	2nd	1 2 5 16 19 42
2013-05-04	3	1st	2 12 13 20 30 35
2013-04-13	3	1st	2 4 6 9 37 44
2013-03-23	10	1st	2 3 12 13 16 30
2013-01-12	13	1st	2 6 11 15 31 34
2012-10-13	4	1st	2 11 13 15 26 40
2012-09-15	10	1st	2 11 19 23 32 34
2012-07-07	2	1st	2 15 21 31 37 38
2012-06-23	6	1st	2 16 19 29 30 31
2012-05-12	3	2nd	1 2 14 16 19 45
2012-04-21	3	2nd	1 2 15 16 21 28
2012-03-31	10	1st	2 6 26 29 41 43
2012-01-21	7	1st	2 9 14 22 31 33
2011-12-03	4	1st	2 9 13 18 26 44
2011-11-05	14	1st	2 6 12 18 44 45
2011-07-30	19	1st	2 5 9 16 23 31
2011-03-19	7	1st	2 6 7 8 18 21
2011-01-29	9	1st	2 11 15 19 20 25
2010-11-27	15	1st	2 12 15 24 35 37
2010-08-14	4	1st	2 12 13 29 31 40
2010-07-17	3	1st	2 11 17 19 39 40
2010-06-26	4	1st	2 5 10 22 37 38
2010-05-29	23	1st	2 12 19 22 30 40
2009-12-19	1	1st	2 3 5 7 9 23
2009-12-12	4	2nd	1 2 24 25 31 34
2009-11-14	3	1st	2 9 13 23 26 36
2009-10-24	1	1st	2 14 16 23 34 39
2009-10-17	1	1st	2 10 22 24 26 44
2009-10-10	3	1st	2 6 13 14 25 32
2009-09-19	9	1st	2 20 24 29 33 41
2009-07-18	14	1st	2 5 6 8 12 13
2009-04-11	5	2nd	1 2 10 27 41 43
2009-03-07	4	1st	2 6 12 34 39 41
2009-02-07	—	1st	2 5 18 20 27 37