Number 2

In Lotto under the 6/42 · since Aug 2020 rules — 642 draws, 6 from 1–42.

106times drawn · chance expected 92 +1.61σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

22longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 106 times in 642 draws against 91.7 expected, +1.61σ. 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 106 times in 642 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 smallest99 · chance 93.1
2nd smallest7 · chance 12.9
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 12.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 3 11 42 8 16

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 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 42. 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
2026-10-10	1	1st	2 17 22 24 29 42
2026-10-07	3	1st	2 8 19 36 37 41
2026-09-26	2	1st	2 13 15 19 21 33
2026-09-19	12	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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-05-31	2	1st	2 11 22 23 35 42
2025-05-24	8	1st	2 4 29 30 33 39
2025-04-26	7	1st	2 8 23 27 39 41
2025-04-02	6	2nd	1 2 5 23 29 42
2025-03-12	1	1st	2 3 5 16 21 42
2025-03-08	15	1st	2 8 17 27 31 39
2025-01-15	7	1st	2 8 18 19 30 34
2024-12-18	14	1st	2 10 17 20 32 42
2024-10-30	2	1st	2 7 22 26 27 40
2024-10-23	5	1st	2 4 8 31 39 42
2024-10-05	2	1st	2 10 20 25 27 34
2024-09-28	19	1st	2 5 8 21 28 37
2024-07-24	1	1st	2 11 13 27 28 33
2024-07-20	17	1st	2 13 21 22 32 34
2024-05-22	4	2nd	1 2 3 5 21 41
2024-05-08	2	2nd	1 2 3 17 21 29
2024-05-01	1	1st	2 16 22 33 35 42
2024-04-27	4	1st	2 3 6 9 21 27
2024-04-13	8	1st	2 5 11 38 40 42
2024-03-16	4	1st	2 9 25 33 34 42
2024-03-02	1	1st	2 6 8 19 30 37
2024-02-28	6	1st	2 4 8 11 30 35
2024-02-07	1	1st	2 5 21 35 36 42
2024-02-03	22	1st	2 7 11 15 18 21
2023-11-18	1	1st	2 8 14 20 21 32
2023-11-15	5	1st	2 4 11 17 20 39
2023-10-28	7	1st	2 4 11 19 25 36
2023-10-04	5	1st	2 10 17 32 36 38
2023-09-16	3	1st	2 12 15 18 21 25
2023-09-06	1	1st	2 4 13 26 34 37
2023-09-02	10	1st	2 16 26 31 37 40
2023-07-29	7	1st	2 3 14 19 20 24
2023-07-05	14	1st	2 3 10 21 23 26
2023-05-17	2	1st	2 7 11 21 26 39
2023-05-10	9	1st	2 14 22 29 32 41
2023-04-08	11	1st	2 9 16 21 36 41
2023-03-01	2	1st	2 4 9 15 22 38
2023-02-22	5	1st	2 5 8 10 19 28
2023-02-04	6	1st	2 3 15 16 22 37
2023-01-14	3	1st	2 17 32 36 39 42
2023-01-04	2	1st	2 16 17 24 34 35
2022-12-28	1	1st	2 4 10 26 32 36
2022-12-24	17	1st	2 3 21 29 34 39
2022-10-26	1	1st	2 4 17 23 24 27
2022-10-22	3	2nd	1 2 14 19 21 30
2022-10-12	4	1st	2 15 24 28 35 36
2022-09-28	1	1st	2 8 16 21 22 33
2022-09-24	2	1st	2 4 17 28 34 42
2022-09-17	1	1st	2 5 7 10 13 18
2022-09-14	7	1st	2 11 12 15 25 33
2022-08-20	3	1st	2 3 11 22 30 42
2022-08-10	8	1st	2 11 15 25 36 39
2022-07-13	4	1st	2 22 23 26 28 32
2022-06-29	9	1st	2 6 11 19 20 27
2022-05-28	7	1st	2 23 28 30 37 38
2022-05-04	10	1st	2 15 19 26 32 36
2022-03-30	2	1st	2 5 9 21 33 37
2022-03-23	8	1st	2 24 28 35 38 42
2022-02-23	6	1st	2 3 15 16 18 38
2022-02-02	2	1st	2 9 11 27 30 35
2022-01-26	9	1st	2 7 18 34 35 42
2021-12-22	1	1st	2 4 7 16 24 28
2021-12-18	4	1st	2 3 15 21 25 28
2021-12-04	8	1st	2 9 18 20 27 42
2021-11-06	5	1st	2 20 25 31 32 35
2021-10-20	2	1st	2 6 7 10 11 12
2021-10-13	2	1st	2 4 6 24 37 40
2021-10-06	13	1st	2 3 10 16 39 42
2021-08-21	1	1st	2 14 15 18 20 28
2021-08-18	14	1st	2 6 8 11 12 34
2021-06-30	19	2nd	1 2 14 15 22 36
2021-04-24	15	1st	2 7 16 34 37 40
2021-03-03	4	1st	2 9 12 14 20 29
2021-02-17	6	1st	2 3 6 18 26 39
2021-01-27	20	1st	2 8 14 24 27 34
2020-11-18	14	1st	2 7 23 24 33 40
2020-09-30	2	1st	2 10 26 28 32 38
2020-09-23	1	1st	2 7 8 15 31 40
2020-09-19	5	2nd	1 2 20 27 28 35
2020-09-02	3	1st	2 10 12 20 21 25
2020-08-22	3	1st	2 8 10 24 29 35
2020-08-12	—	1st	2 7 12 21 33 42