Number 2

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 642 draws, 5 from 1–34.

75times drawn · chance expected 94 −2.16σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 33% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

37longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 75 times in 642 draws against 94.4 expected, −2.16σ. 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 75 times in 642 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 37 · 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 smallest64 · chance 65.9
2nd smallest11 · chance 9.1
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 9.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 17 3 9 6 8

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 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 34. 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
2026-10-04	7	1st	2 10 11 13 15
2026-09-27	14	1st	2 3 24 28 29
2026-09-13	25	2nd	1 2 6 7 23
2026-08-19	10	1st	2 15 21 24

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

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