Number 2

In Powerball under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,418 draws, 5 from 1–69.

103times drawn · chance expected 103 +0.03σ

8draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

13.7average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

61longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 103 times in 1,418 draws against 102.8 expected, +0.03σ. 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 103 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 13.7 draws · longest completed wait 61 · 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 smallest92 · chance 96.9
2nd smallest11 · chance 6.1
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 6.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

18 39 61 1 23 12

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 68 numbers; chance expects about 0.2 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 2 is picked about 1.12× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 69. 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 ×1.14
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.06

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 2 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-09-21	2	1st	2 7 9 17 58
2026-09-16	25	1st	2 21 24 25 64
2026-07-20	2	1st	2 9 44 53 59
2026-07-15	6	1st	2 7 18 29

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 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-08-19	20	2nd	1 2 15 23 28
2024-07-03	30	1st	2 26 33 55 57
2024-04-24	34	1st	2 20 22 26 47
2024-02-05	26	2nd	1 2 27 30 67
2023-12-06	4	1st	2 12 37 56 65
2023-11-27	18	1st	2 21 38 61 66
2023-10-16	12	1st	2 27 31 44 64
2023-09-18	21	1st	2 21 26 40 42
2023-07-31	7	1st	2 11 48 58 65
2023-07-15	2	1st	2 9 43 55 57
2023-07-10	7	1st	2 24 34 53 58
2023-06-24	3	1st	2 38 44 50 62
2023-06-17	2	1st	2 12 45 61 64
2023-06-12	3	1st	2 3 16 23 68
2023-06-05	2	1st	2 31 45 46 49
2023-05-31	15	1st	2 4 54 61 62
2023-04-26	22	1st	2 15 30 35 49
2023-03-06	2	1st	2 13 29 58 69
2023-03-01	11	1st	2 9 28 36 53
2023-02-04	3	1st	2 8 15 19 58
2023-01-28	28	1st	2 18 23 27 47
2022-11-23	9	2nd	1 2 31 39 66
2022-11-02	13	1st	2 11 22 35 60
2022-10-03	16	1st	2 16 22 55 63
2022-08-27	32	1st	2 18 56 60 65
2022-06-13	3	1st	2 27 42 44 51
2022-06-06	4	1st	2 10 35 44 46
2022-05-28	23	1st	2 39 50 61 66
2022-04-04	4	1st	2 32 39 46 69
2022-03-26	14	1st	2 10 50 59 61
2022-02-21	5	1st	2 36 37 45 69
2022-02-09	5	1st	2 17 33 51 63
2022-01-29	11	1st	2 15 38 54 65
2022-01-03	2	1st	2 13 32 33 48
2021-12-29	4	1st	2 6 9 33 39
2021-12-20	1	1st	2 13 23 34 66
2021-12-18	19	1st	2 6 24 51 61
2021-11-03	15	2nd	1 2 24 50 57
2021-09-29	42	1st	2 7 11 17 32
2021-05-26	25	1st	2 8 21 34 62
2021-02-27	8	1st	2 28 31 44 52
2021-01-30	19	2nd	1 2 7 52 61
2020-11-25	7	1st	2 57 58 60 65
2020-10-31	23	1st	2 6 40 42 55
2020-08-12	1	1st	2 6 18 36 37
2020-08-08	16	1st	2 3 14 40 51
2020-06-13	6	1st	2 12 32 50 65
2020-05-23	7	1st	2 8 18 21 23
2020-04-29	6	1st	2 20 49 61 67
2020-04-08	5	1st	2 37 39 48 54
2020-03-21	16	1st	2 23 40 59 69
2020-01-25	5	1st	2 9 17 36 67
2020-01-08	4	1st	2 4 7 43 56
2019-12-25	61	1st	2 4 16 30 46
2019-05-25	2	2nd	1 2 39 43 66
2019-05-18	6	1st	2 10 25 66 67
2019-04-27	21	1st	2 29 41 45 62
2019-02-13	1	1st	2 8 14 24 69
2019-02-09	3	2nd	1 2 3 7 39
2019-01-30	36	1st	2 12 16 29 54
2018-09-26	3	2nd	1 2 7 30 50
2018-09-15	15	1st	2 18 19 24 34
2018-07-25	31	1st	2 18 41 44 64
2018-04-07	27	1st	2 17 20 38 39
2018-01-03	6	1st	2 18 37 39 42
2017-12-13	44	1st	2 24 28 51 58
2017-07-12	32	2nd	1 2 18 23 61
2017-03-22	5	1st	2 9 27 29 42
2017-03-04	37	1st	2 18 19 22 63
2016-10-26	7	1st	2 3 16 48 56
2016-10-01	25	1st	2 12 50 61 64
2016-07-06	5	1st	2 24 31 57 66
2016-06-18	15	1st	2 23 41 53 63
2016-04-27	22	1st	2 25 33 39 64
2016-02-10	10	1st	2 3 40 50 62
2016-01-06	7	1st	2 11 47 62 63
2015-12-12	4	1st	2 14 19 30 62
2015-11-28	7	1st	2 6 47 66 67
2015-11-04	—	1st	2 12 17 20 65