Number 2

In Lightning Lotto under the 5/49 · since May 2026 rules — 139 draws, 5 from 1–49.

11times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.89σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

13.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

34longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 11 times in 139 draws against 14.2 expected, −0.89σ. 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 11 times in 139 draws · average wait 13.3 draws · longest completed wait 34 · 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 smallest9 · chance 10.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 0.9
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 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 17 36 1 24 27

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 19 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 49. 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
2026-10-11	19	1st	2 5 14 36 41
2026-09-22	2	1st	2 13 24 28 36
2026-09-20	34	2nd	1 2 10 26 27
2026-08-17	4	1st	2 8

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.