Number 2

In Pick 5 under the 5/40 · since Aug 2023 rules — 1,152 draws, 5 from 1–40.

136times drawn · chance expected 144 −0.71σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 67% for any number

8.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.0

46longest completed wait · 28% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 136 times in 1,152 draws against 144.0 expected, −0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 136 times in 1,152 draws · average wait 8.5 draws · longest completed wait 46 · waiting 4 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 smallest124 · chance 122.1
2nd smallest12 · chance 13.9
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 13.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 3 5 7 34 26

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 39 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 40. 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	1	1st	2 12 15 19 21
2026-10-06	15	1st	2 14 17 18 19
2026-09-21	4	1st	2 7 20 23 33
2026-09-17	7	1st	2 16 20 23

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 5/40 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-30	1	1st	2 13 14 28 35
2026-04-29	3	1st	2 5 8 22 24
2026-04-26	2	1st	2 7 10 17 32
2026-04-24	2	1st	2 18 34 35 40
2026-04-22	9	1st	2 14 15 25 26
2026-04-13	17	1st	2 23 27 34 38
2026-03-27	2	1st	2 8 13 18 32
2026-03-25	3	1st	2 16 31 32 36
2026-03-22	2	1st	2 26 28 33 36
2026-03-20	2	1st	2 4 11 16 30
2026-03-18	15	1st	2 9 11 22 28
2026-03-03	20	1st	2 14 24 25 29
2026-02-11	7	1st	2 8 12 13 26
2026-02-04	4	1st	2 9 18 23 27
2026-01-31	1	1st	2 3 9 14 33
2026-01-30	6	1st	2 14 22 28 33
2026-01-24	9	1st	2 26 30 35 37
2026-01-15	1	1st	2 5 18 23 34
2026-01-14	16	1st	2 3 13 28 29
2025-12-29	15	1st	2 5 6 12 23
2025-12-14	5	2nd	1 2 3 6 14
2025-12-09	8	1st	2 11 14 15 38
2025-12-01	2	1st	2 10 13 20 38
2025-11-29	10	1st	2 12 32 34 38
2025-11-19	6	1st	2 14 27 29 36
2025-11-13	2	1st	2 4 10 16 24
2025-11-11	5	1st	2 15 21 31 37
2025-11-06	14	1st	2 12 19 32 39
2025-10-23	12	1st	2 8 24 26 33
2025-10-11	3	1st	2 5 7 34 40
2025-10-08	14	1st	2 6 14 15 17
2025-09-24	17	1st	2 4 12 26 38
2025-09-07	16	1st	2 7 16 24 27
2025-08-22	3	1st	2 4 11 16 26
2025-08-19	30	1st	2 5 6 8 31
2025-07-20	21	1st	2 8 19 22 31
2025-06-29	4	1st	2 20 32 33 39
2025-06-25	1	1st	2 17 24 28 31
2025-06-24	1	1st	2 5 10 33 36
2025-06-23	5	1st	2 3 11 39 40
2025-06-18	2	1st	2 7 13 16 29
2025-06-16	6	1st	2 5 6 15 40
2025-06-10	11	1st	2 7 10 32 40
2025-05-30	2	2nd	1 2 19 21 33
2025-05-28	12	1st	2 11 14 26 38
2025-05-16	9	1st	2 12 17 30 32
2025-05-07	34	2nd	1 2 12 16 35
2025-04-03	5	2nd	1 2 3 21 27
2025-03-29	4	1st	2 5 21 24 39
2025-03-25	1	1st	2 18 19 20 33
2025-03-24	24	1st	2 14 16 23 24
2025-02-28	23	1st	2 3 18 24 25
2025-02-05	5	1st	2 12 18 29 39
2025-01-31	12	1st	2 14 21 33 39
2025-01-19	3	1st	2 5 8 17 40
2025-01-16	40	2nd	1 2 31 36 37
2024-12-07	15	1st	2 24 29 36 40
2024-11-22	9	1st	2 3 4 10 25
2024-11-13	3	1st	2 8 10 25 36
2024-11-10	1	1st	2 20 29 30 40
2024-11-09	46	1st	2 5 15 17 21
2024-09-24	3	1st	2 21 27 28 35
2024-09-21	8	1st	2 13 16 27 39
2024-09-13	7	1st	2 6 9 14 19
2024-09-06	17	2nd	1 2 18 26 33
2024-08-20	7	1st	2 7 20 32 34
2024-08-13	4	1st	2 3 5 14 36
2024-08-09	4	1st	2 4 14 23 32
2024-08-05	9	1st	2 10 11 24 34
2024-07-27	4	2nd	1 2 3 6 17
2024-07-23	10	1st	2 4 17 35 40
2024-07-13	37	1st	2 4 12 18 27
2024-06-06	2	1st	2 6 9 21 36
2024-06-04	5	2nd	1 2 25 28 29
2024-05-30	2	2nd	1 2 15 32 35
2024-05-28	6	1st	2 6 20 26 27
2024-05-22	10	1st	2 16 22 24 37
2024-05-12	12	1st	2 9 13 19 23
2024-04-30	2	1st	2 7 13 22 36
2024-04-28	1	1st	2 17 32 34 40
2024-04-27	7	1st	2 20 26 31 35
2024-04-20	3	1st	2 5 7 23 39
2024-04-17	17	1st	2 6 20 21 28
2024-03-31	6	1st	2 8 12 25 30
2024-03-25	11	1st	2 7 21 26 37
2024-03-14	25	1st	2 6 13 30 37
2024-02-18	6	1st	2 7 16 18 38
2024-02-12	5	1st	2 5 7 14 22
2024-02-07	3	1st	2 6 24 30 31
2024-02-04	5	1st	2 4 24 27 31
2024-01-30	1	1st	2 8 10 19 40
2024-01-29	28	2nd	1 2 31 34 39
2024-01-01	15	1st	2 15 28 34 36
2023-12-17	5	1st	2 14 21 31 35
2023-12-12	3	1st	2 3 21 26 35
2023-12-09	19	1st	2 7 15 25 30
2023-11-20	2	1st	2 8 17 31 33
2023-11-18	9	1st	2 17 19 34 40
2023-11-09	3	1st	2 8 9 25 26
2023-11-06	8	1st	2 3 7 27 31
2023-10-29	5	1st	2 9 17 34 40
2023-10-24	2	1st	2 24 27 34 37
2023-10-22	7	1st	2 4 22 31 38
2023-10-15	4	1st	2 5 14 20 39
2023-10-11	6	1st	2 6 11 15 26
2023-10-05	5	1st	2 10 16 19 35
2023-09-30	2	1st	2 7 18 22 28
2023-09-28	15	1st	2 3 9 11 31
2023-09-13	10	1st	2 6 15 32 36
2023-09-03	3	1st	2 6 9 10 37
2023-08-31	11	1st	2 8 15 27 29
2023-08-20	—	1st	2 3 27 32 36