Number 2

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 99 draws, 6 from 1–42.

10times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.19σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 54% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

30longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 99 draws against 14.1 expected, −1.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 99 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 30 · waiting 5 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 smallest6 · chance 8.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 1.2
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 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 39 4 6 9 36

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 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
2026-09-23	2	1st	2 3 9 11 14 28
2026-09-16	6	2nd	1 2 4 6 39 40
2026-08-26	10	2nd	1 2 9 20 35 39
2026-07-22	10	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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.