Number 2

In Powerball under the 6/40 + 1/10 · since Nov 2011 rules — 1,350 draws, 6 from 1–40.

206times drawn · chance expected 203 +0.27σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 32% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 6.7

26longest completed wait · 97% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 206 times in 1,350 draws against 202.5 expected, +0.27σ. Each draw is independent: after 8 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 206 times in 1,350 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 8 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 smallest174 · chance 179.6
2nd smallest32 · chance 26.4
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 26.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 17 9 3 30 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 39 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 40. 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
2026-08-29	5	1st	2 5 20 24 25 31
2026-08-12	11	1st	2 8 13 19 28 39
2026-07-04	2	1st	2 15 17 18 26 30
2026-06-27	5	1st	2

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 6/40 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-05-31	4	2nd	1 2 29 32 34 35
2025-05-17	6	1st	2 6 15 19 22 25
2025-04-26	16	1st	2 5 11 13 23 40
2025-03-01	5	1st	2 17 20 22 27 30
2025-02-12	11	1st	2 10 28 31 33 34
2025-01-04	2	1st	2 16 20 28 31 36
2024-12-28	2	1st	2 9 19 26 30 36
2024-12-21	12	1st	2 3 9 21 24 33
2024-11-09	6	1st	2 12 13 16 18 28
2024-10-19	4	1st	2 15 20 21 26 30
2024-10-05	3	1st	2 3 11 12 30 36
2024-09-25	5	1st	2 3 5 17 27 30
2024-09-07	14	1st	2 4 8 9 33 40
2024-07-20	3	1st	2 4 10 25 30 40
2024-07-10	6	1st	2 7 16 23 30 40
2024-06-19	4	1st	2 8 16 18 23 26
2024-06-05	14	1st	2 13 15 22 23 33
2024-04-17	3	2nd	1 2 14 15 17 19
2024-04-06	17	1st	2 5 6 10 21 30
2024-02-07	2	1st	2 3 24 27 37 38
2024-01-31	12	1st	2 6 10 25 36 40
2023-12-20	6	1st	2 15 26 37 38 40
2023-11-29	6	1st	2 3 5 9 14 36
2023-11-08	2	1st	2 3 11 20 25 39
2023-11-01	1	1st	2 6 13 26 28 32
2023-10-28	13	1st	2 14 22 24 35 36
2023-09-13	25	2nd	1 2 16 21 33 40
2023-06-17	1	1st	2 10 13 17 19 21
2023-06-14	1	1st	2 3 9 18 22 37
2023-06-10	7	1st	2 10 15 23 24 40
2023-05-17	8	1st	2 12 13 20 23 38
2023-04-19	1	1st	2 3 13 25 27 33
2023-04-15	11	2nd	1 2 19 23 29 35
2023-03-08	4	2nd	1 2 9 17 23 39
2023-02-22	4	2nd	1 2 23 25 30 31
2023-02-08	13	1st	2 10 15 18 24 29
2022-12-24	11	1st	2 3 4 19 30 31
2022-11-16	9	1st	2 13 23 24 34 40
2022-10-15	3	1st	2 4 8 10 15 33
2022-10-05	7	1st	2 8 9 16 25 34
2022-09-10	9	1st	2 10 14 17 21 33
2022-08-10	2	2nd	1 2 20 29 32 33
2022-08-03	6	1st	2 7 25 27 28 35
2022-07-13	1	1st	2 3 6 9 15 40
2022-07-09	5	1st	2 22 23 24 32 38
2022-06-22	6	1st	2 5 9 22 29 34
2022-06-01	9	1st	2 5 6 9 25 35
2022-04-30	8	1st	2 6 15 22 29 38
2022-04-02	2	1st	2 9 17 18 30 38
2022-03-26	18	1st	2 5 11 20 23 25
2022-01-22	1	1st	2 4 11 13 25 27
2022-01-19	13	1st	2 4 11 13 23 32
2021-12-04	3	1st	2 9 21 24 29 39
2021-11-24	1	1st	2 4 6 13 20 36
2021-11-20	9	1st	2 3 4 17 24 28
2021-10-20	1	1st	2 3 4 7 19 31
2021-10-16	13	1st	2 7 19 28 32 40
2021-09-01	19	1st	2 10 18 25 27 30
2021-06-26	8	2nd	1 2 6 11 26 32
2021-05-29	5	1st	2 10 16 31 35 38
2021-05-12	2	1st	2 3 26 29 32 35
2021-05-05	12	1st	2 9 21 25 26 38
2021-03-24	13	1st	2 13 17 20 27 33
2021-02-06	6	1st	2 3 8 10 11 38
2021-01-16	5	1st	2 13 17 18 19 30
2020-12-30	4	1st	2 5 9 24 26 28
2020-12-16	4	1st	2 10 12 17 19 26
2020-12-02	2	1st	2 4 6 25 30 40
2020-11-25	15	1st	2 3 14 29 30 35
2020-10-03	26	1st	2 9 23 30 32 39
2020-07-04	4	1st	2 6 7 23 25 30
2020-06-20	1	1st	2 3 10 11 29 35
2020-06-17	1	1st	2 24 32 35 36 38
2020-06-13	3	1st	2 8 17 18 27 29
2020-06-03	1	1st	2 29 30 33 35 40
2020-05-30	18	1st	2 4 12 13 15 28
2020-03-28	3	1st	2 3 19 35 37 39
2020-03-18	6	1st	2 12 18 20 28 36
2020-02-26	3	1st	2 3 8 21 30 33
2020-02-15	1	1st	2 4 10 17 29 31
2020-02-12	2	1st	2 11 20 21 25 32
2020-02-05	8	1st	2 3 6 15 31 40
2020-01-08	8	1st	2 4 6 23 24 25
2019-12-11	6	1st	2 7 11 16 28 39
2019-11-20	2	2nd	1 2 11 17 30 35
2019-11-13	6	1st	2 9 10 17 22 31
2019-10-23	15	1st	2 3 20 24 26 39
2019-08-31	2	1st	2 4 5 24 30 37
2019-08-24	14	1st	2 4 6 17 22 35
2019-07-06	7	1st	2 5 17 31 33 37
2019-06-12	5	1st	2 6 7 8 23 39
2019-05-25	1	1st	2 10 23 30 35 37
2019-05-22	3	1st	2 3 12 14 16 28
2019-05-11	12	1st	2 3 16 19 20 39
2019-03-30	12	1st	2 3 9 13 18 21
2019-02-16	1	2nd	1 2 27 35 36 40
2019-02-13	4	1st	2 5 6 26 27 31
2019-01-30	7	1st	2 17 22 25 38 40
2019-01-05	2	1st	2 4 20 23 24 34
2018-12-29	3	1st	2 10 11 15 33 35
2018-12-19	3	1st	2 14 22 23 30 37
2018-12-08	17	1st	2 8 12 16 18 38
2018-10-10	7	1st	2 4 9 12 13 37
2018-09-15	5	1st	2 7 8 12 15 17
2018-08-29	2	1st	2 7 8 12 21 32
2018-08-22	10	1st	2 5 10 15 25 28
2018-07-18	6	1st	2 5 13 24 33 39
2018-06-27	5	1st	2 19 22 24 27 34
2018-06-09	4	1st	2 3 4 9 20 24
2018-05-26	7	1st	2 13 17 18 36 37
2018-05-02	3	1st	2 7 8 25 28 29
2018-04-21	6	1st	2 9 10 15 27 32
2018-03-31	8	1st	2 4 6 11 16 23
2018-03-03	2	1st	2 12 19 34 35 38
2018-02-24	4	1st	2 16 19 25 32 40
2018-02-10	2	1st	2 4 5 22 30 33
2018-02-03	7	1st	2 11 15 29 30 38
2018-01-10	11	2nd	1 2 4 8 16 26
2017-12-02	5	1st	2 14 15 21 23 32
2017-11-15	12	1st	2 7 16 26 32 33
2017-10-04	15	1st	2 3 5 21 33 37
2017-08-12	3	1st	2 14 21 23 30 31
2017-08-02	3	2nd	1 2 6 8 26 28
2017-07-22	15	1st	2 13 19 25 35 36
2017-05-31	1	2nd	1 2 5 9 12 36
2017-05-27	4	1st	2 3 8 9 28 36
2017-05-13	7	1st	2 3 7 26 31 37
2017-04-19	1	2nd	1 2 11 26 28 34
2017-04-15	1	1st	2 14 15 24 27 29
2017-04-12	2	1st	2 13 23 26 27 32
2017-04-05	1	2nd	1 2 9 11 26 36
2017-04-01	3	1st	2 19 20 22 25 33
2017-03-22	4	1st	2 11 24 28 29 37
2017-03-08	9	1st	2 3 4 5 13 36
2017-02-04	1	1st	2 3 16 17 38 39
2017-02-01	5	1st	2 13 18 25 31 35
2017-01-14	8	2nd	1 2 11 31 32 38
2016-12-17	7	1st	2 12 22 24 26 31
2016-11-23	6	2nd	1 2 6 7 30 40
2016-11-02	7	1st	2 9 13 25 29 36
2016-10-08	15	1st	2 19 22 23 28 29
2016-08-17	17	1st	2 3 6 10 14 26
2016-06-18	2	1st	2 17 23 33 34 36
2016-06-11	15	2nd	1 2 7 16 17 18
2016-04-20	16	1st	2 3 9 12 21 26
2016-02-24	9	1st	2 5 17 19 20 29
2016-01-23	9	1st	2 7 14 16 17 25
2015-12-23	5	2nd	1 2 7 13 23 28
2015-12-05	13	1st	2 9 12 15 23 25
2015-10-21	13	1st	2 12 13 16 23 31
2015-08-08	18	1st	2 13 18 22 26 39
2015-04-04	4	2nd	1 2 7 9 17 32
2015-03-07	8	2nd	1 2 6 24 26 30
2015-01-10	6	1st	2 15 19 27 37 39
2014-11-29	5	2nd	1 2 5 23 28 39
2014-10-25	1	1st	2 9 19 28 31 35
2014-10-18	2	1st	2 15 27 32 36 40
2014-10-04	7	1st	2 11 17 19 26 28
2014-08-16	6	1st	2 10 24 26 29 33
2014-07-05	1	1st	2 9 10 12 18 23
2014-06-28	1	2nd	1 2 3 14 36 38
2014-06-21	2	1st	2 3 14 17 18 35
2014-06-07	12	1st	2 4 7 27 32 33
2014-03-15	21	1st	2 6 11 19 22 36
2013-10-19	5	1st	2 14 27 29 34 40
2013-09-14	1	1st	2 5 11 19 30 31
2013-09-07	6	1st	2 4 24 32 33 38
2013-07-27	5	2nd	1 2 24 32 36 37
2013-06-22	4	1st	2 7 14 23 30 33
2013-05-25	14	1st	2 4 9 17 19 27
2013-02-16	3	1st	2 6 25 32 35 36
2013-01-26	2	2nd	1 2 12 27 29 31
2013-01-12	10	2nd	1 2 3 7 8 30
2012-11-03	2	2nd	1 2 15 21 35 36
2012-10-20	10	1st	2 11 12 14 27 31
2012-08-11	2	1st	2 4 15 20 26 31
2012-07-28	4	1st	2 7 8 9 18 25
2012-06-30	7	1st	2 9 10 14 22 24
2012-05-12	7	1st	2 13 16 24 35 36
2012-03-24	6	1st	2 9 14 19 22 33
2012-02-11	13	1st	2 7 9 17 21 33
2011-11-12	—	2nd	1 2 5 6 8 18