Number 2

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

9times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.72σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 27% for any number

9.8average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

27longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.72σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 92 draws · average wait 9.8 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 11 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 smallest9 · chance 8.1
2nd smallest0 · chance 0.9
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 0.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 34 37 7 13 16

Never drawn alongside 18 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
2026-09-02	4	1st	2 19 27 34 40 47
2026-08-19	7	1st	2 16 29 34 38 49
2026-07-25	10	1st	2 13 18 19 43 46
2026-06-20	6	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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.