Number 2

In Poker Lotto under the 5/13 · since Aug 2025 rules — 429 draws, 5 from 1–13.

180times drawn · chance expected 165 +1.49σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 62% for any number

2.4average wait between appearances · chance says 2.6

10longest completed wait · 90% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 180 times in 429 draws against 165.0 expected, +1.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 180 times in 429 draws · average wait 2.4 draws · longest completed wait 10 · waiting 2 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 smallest112 · chance 120.0
2nd smallest66 · chance 60.0
3rd smallest2 · 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 60.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 13 8 10 11 5

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 12 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 13. 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
2026-10-09	1	2nd	1 2 10 10 11
2026-10-08	1	2nd	1 2 7 13 13
2026-10-07	3	1st	2 6 8 11 12
2026-10-04	5	2nd	1 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 5/13 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-08-07	2	1st	2 3 7 8 9
2026-08-05	0	2nd	1 2 5 5
2026-08-05	2	2nd	1 2 5 5
2026-08-03	1	2nd	1 2 4 5 11
2026-08-02	1	2nd	1 2 6 8 13
2026-08-01	1	1st	2 5 6 10 13
2026-07-31	4	1st	2 4 8 9 13
2026-07-27	7	1st	2 8 8 10 11
2026-07-20	1	1st	2 6 7 10 11
2026-07-19	1	3rd	1 1 2 12 13
2026-07-18	5	2nd	1 2 8 11 13
2026-07-13	1	2nd	1 2 8 8 10
2026-07-12	1	2nd	1 2 8 9 12
2026-07-11	0	1st	2 5 5 11
2026-07-11	1	1st	2 5 5 11
2026-07-10	1	1st	2 7 8 10 12
2026-07-09	5	1st	2 6 8 8 11
2026-07-04	2	1st	2 4 6 12 12
2026-07-02	5	1st	2 4 9 13 13
2026-06-27	2	1st	2 7 8 11 13
2026-06-25	1	1st	2 6 6 7 10
2026-06-24	0	2nd	1 2 6 13
2026-06-24	2	2nd	1 2 6 13
2026-06-22	3	2nd	1 2 3 10 12
2026-06-19	7	2nd	1 2 10 12 13
2026-06-12	2	1st	2 3 4 8 11
2026-06-10	5	2nd	1 2 4 10 11
2026-06-05	1	2nd	1 2 4 6 11
2026-06-04	2	1st	2 5 6 7 9
2026-06-02	5	1st	2 5 5 7 10
2026-05-28	2	2nd	1 2 7 8 9
2026-05-26	1	1st	2 5 7 11 13
2026-05-25	3	1st	2 5 5 8 13
2026-05-22	5	1st	2 5 7 7 10
2026-05-17	4	1st	2 4 6 10 13
2026-05-13	4	2nd	1 2 8 12 13
2026-05-09	1	1st	2 3 5 6 10
2026-05-08	2	1st	2 4 6 12 13
2026-05-06	5	2nd	1 2 8 12 13
2026-05-01	1	1st	2 3 4 11 12
2026-04-30	1	1st	2 6 6 7 8
2026-04-29	0	2nd	1 2 7 8
2026-04-29	1	2nd	1 2 7 8
2026-04-28	1	1st	2 3 5 7 12
2026-04-27	5	1st	2 3 5 9 11
2026-04-22	2	1st	2 4 5 9 13
2026-04-20	3	1st	2 5 6 8 11
2026-04-17	1	1st	2 7 11 11 12
2026-04-16	0	1st	2 5 5 12
2026-04-16	2	1st	2 5 5 12
2026-04-14	3	1st	2 4 5 6 6
2026-04-11	3	1st	2 4 5 7 10
2026-04-08	3	1st	2 3 6 6 9
2026-04-05	1	2nd	1 2 3 6 12
2026-04-04	0	2nd	1 2 8 9
2026-04-04	3	2nd	1 2 8 9
2026-04-01	1	1st	2 4 4 5 13
2026-03-31	2	1st	2 3 6 11 12
2026-03-29	4	1st	2 4 4 6 11
2026-03-25	2	2nd	1 2 3 3 7
2026-03-23	3	1st	2 8 8 9 9
2026-03-20	3	1st	2 7 9 10 10
2026-03-17	1	2nd	1 2 5 5 13
2026-03-16	1	2nd	1 2 4 7 8
2026-03-15	2	2nd	1 2 9 11 13
2026-03-13	1	1st	2 8 10 10 12
2026-03-12	5	1st	2 3 4 9 10
2026-03-07	1	1st	2 5 8 9 13
2026-03-06	1	1st	2 3 4 10 10
2026-03-05	4	1st	2 4 11 11 11
2026-03-01	1	1st	2 6 10 11 13
2026-02-28	4	2nd	1 2 6 9 11
2026-02-24	4	2nd	1 2 3 3 13
2026-02-20	3	1st	2 4 5 11 11
2026-02-17	2	1st	2 3 3 6 13
2026-02-15	2	2nd	1 2 7 7 8
2026-02-13	1	1st	2 4 5 6 11
2026-02-12	3	1st	2 3 8 9 13
2026-02-09	6	2nd	1 2 7 7 13
2026-02-03	0	2nd	1 2 7 11
2026-02-03	3	2nd	1 2 7 11
2026-01-31	3	1st	2 6 8 11 12
2026-01-28	10	1st	2 8 8 10 13
2026-01-18	2	1st	2 6 6 7 13
2026-01-16	1	1st	2 7 9 10 12
2026-01-15	6	2nd	1 2 9 11 12
2026-01-09	0	1st	2 3 7 10
2026-01-09	7	1st	2 3 7 10
2026-01-02	6	1st	2 9 10 11 11
2025-12-27	0	1st	2 4 8 12
2025-12-27	3	1st	2 4 8 12
2025-12-24	3	1st	2 5 5 10 11
2025-12-21	2	1st	2 3 7 9 10
2025-12-19	3	2nd	1 2 6 10 11
2025-12-16	1	1st	2 5 6 7 13
2025-12-15	2	1st	2 4 5 8 13
2025-12-13	0	1st	2 4 5 7
2025-12-13	1	1st	2 4 5 7
2025-12-12	9	2nd	1 2 5 13 13
2025-12-03	0	1st	2 3 5 11
2025-12-03	1	1st	2 3 5 11
2025-12-02	1	1st	2 5 6 10 11
2025-12-01	0	1st	2 3 7 13
2025-12-01	3	1st	2 3 7 13
2025-11-28	5	3rd	1 1 2 12 12
2025-11-23	0	1st	2 4 9 13
2025-11-23	6	1st	2 4 9 13
2025-11-17	1	1st	2 4 4 8 10
2025-11-16	3	1st	2 10 11 12 13
2025-11-13	1	2nd	1 2 6 9 9
2025-11-12	2	1st	2 5 5 7 11
2025-11-10	6	2nd	1 2 4 8 12
2025-11-04	2	1st	2 4 6 12 13
2025-11-02	2	1st	2 3 4 12 13
2025-10-31	0	2nd	1 2 5 12
2025-10-31	2	2nd	1 2 5 12
2025-10-29	5	2nd	1 2 6 6 12
2025-10-24	4	2nd	1 2 3 4 10
2025-10-20	3	1st	2 3 7 9 9
2025-10-17	1	1st	2 4 9 12 13
2025-10-16	0	2nd	1 2 7 13
2025-10-16	2	2nd	1 2 7 13
2025-10-14	3	1st	2 7 7 10 11
2025-10-11	3	2nd	1 2 3 7 12
2025-10-08	2	2nd	1 2 4 10 13
2025-10-06	1	2nd	1 2 7 8 9
2025-10-05	3	1st	2 10 10 11 13
2025-10-02	5	1st	2 6 8 9 12
2025-09-27	1	2nd	1 2 3 5 12
2025-09-26	1	1st	2 8 9 11 13
2025-09-25	5	1st	2 5 8 9 12
2025-09-20	3	2nd	1 2 6 8 11
2025-09-17	1	2nd	1 2 11 12 13
2025-09-16	2	1st	2 6 9 10 12
2025-09-14	2	1st	2 4 8 10 13
2025-09-12	1	1st	2 5 5 11 12
2025-09-11	1	2nd	1 2 5 10 10
2025-09-10	1	1st	2 4 7 11 13
2025-09-09	2	1st	2 4 8 8 11
2025-09-07	1	2nd	1 2 4 8 9
2025-09-06	1	1st	2 3 4 12 13
2025-09-05	0	1st	2 3 9 12
2025-09-05	1	1st	2 3 9 12
2025-09-04	3	2nd	1 2 3 10 12
2025-09-01	0	2nd	1 2 3 13
2025-09-01	1	2nd	1 2 3 13
2025-08-31	1	2nd	1 2 3 6 6
2025-08-30	1	1st	2 8 9 10 12
2025-08-29	1	1st	2 3 8 9 13
2025-08-28	2	1st	2 3 9 10 12
2025-08-26	2	1st	2 5 10 11 12
2025-08-24	6	1st	2 4 6 8 12
2025-08-18	3	2nd	1 2 3 3 8
2025-08-15	3	1st	2 4 7 8 9
2025-08-12	2	1st	2 4 8 9 13
2025-08-10	—	1st	2 5 6 7 13