In Powerbucks Wheel of Fortune under the 6/36 · since Apr 2025 rules — 483 draws, 6 from 1–36.
77times drawn · chance expected 81 −0.43σ
3draws waiting · a wait this long: 69% for any number
6.3average wait between appearances · chance says 6.0
19longest completed wait · 95% chance of one at least that long
2 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 77 times in 483 draws against 80.5 expected, −0.43σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
2
Number 2, draw by draw
Drawn 77 times in 483 draws · average wait 6.3 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 3 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.
It has shared a draw with every one of the other 35 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 36. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 6/36 tonight whatever it did last week.