Number 2

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.02σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 74% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

20longest completed wait · 56% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, −0.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 108 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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.

1st smallest14 · chance 13.2
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.8
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 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

8 11 24 29 39 4

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 43. 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
2026-09-28	1	2nd	1 2 4 24 27 29
2026-09-24	17	1st	2 3 6 20 35 39
2026-07-27	4	1st	2 24 32 33 37 39
2026-07-13	13	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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.