Number 2

In Megabucks Plus under the 5/41 + 1/6 · since Apr 2023 rules — 523 draws, 5 from 1–41.

80times drawn · chance expected 64 +2.17σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 88% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

26longest completed wait · 96% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 80 times in 523 draws against 63.8 expected, +2.17σ. 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 80 times in 523 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 smallest72 · chance 72.0
2nd smallest8 · chance 8.0
3rd smallest0 · 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 8.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

19 4 26 14 32 21

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 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 41. 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
2026-10-07	13	1st	2 3 6 21 23
2026-09-07	7	1st	2 10 19 37 41
2026-08-22	18	1st	2 5 8 14 38
2026-07-11	15	1st	2 18 30

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

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