Number 2

In Palmetto Cash 5 under the 5/42 · since Mar 2024 rules — 938 draws, 5 from 1–42.

123times drawn · chance expected 112 +1.14σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.4

31longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 123 times in 938 draws against 111.7 expected, +1.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 2, draw by draw

Drawn 123 times in 938 draws · average wait 7.7 draws · longest completed wait 31 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest115 · chance 111.0
2nd smallest8 · chance 12.0
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 12.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

10 3 9 40 20 23

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 41 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 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
2026-10-11	1	1st	2 25 30 34 37
2026-10-10	7	1st	2 14 16 24 26
2026-10-03	10	1st	2 14 20 29 40
2026-09-23	1	1st	2 12

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 5/42 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-06	1	1st	2 11 23 31 33
2026-04-05	3	1st	2 7 10 32 39
2026-04-02	2	1st	2 8 19 31 40
2026-03-31	4	1st	2 9 16 28 39
2026-03-27	11	1st	2 9 10 29 32
2026-03-16	22	1st	2 5 11 15 23
2026-02-22	5	1st	2 16 17 39 40
2026-02-17	8	1st	2 22 24 36 39
2026-02-09	23	1st	2 3 20 23 29
2026-01-17	7	1st	2 21 24 33 38
2026-01-10	7	1st	2 4 31 38 40
2026-01-03	4	1st	2 6 23 25 33
2025-12-30	8	1st	2 3 12 26 35
2025-12-22	6	1st	2 17 24 25 28
2025-12-16	5	1st	2 3 19 25 32
2025-12-11	9	1st	2 9 21 22 42
2025-12-02	12	1st	2 10 17 19 36
2025-11-20	1	1st	2 3 26 29 33
2025-11-19	1	1st	2 3 5 13 24
2025-11-18	2	1st	2 5 8 17 20
2025-11-16	16	1st	2 9 17 19 32
2025-10-31	14	1st	2 11 20 27 39
2025-10-17	2	2nd	1 2 4 31 42
2025-10-15	7	1st	2 5 13 27 32
2025-10-08	3	1st	2 4 23 27 32
2025-10-05	7	1st	2 23 25 27 35
2025-09-28	4	1st	2 21 23 28 29
2025-09-24	1	1st	2 6 18 27 39
2025-09-23	2	1st	2 10 23 33 39
2025-09-21	4	2nd	1 2 10 11 17
2025-09-17	1	1st	2 9 12 14 26
2025-09-16	16	1st	2 4 9 20 39
2025-08-31	7	1st	2 10 18 21 38
2025-08-24	14	1st	2 5 32 35 41
2025-08-10	8	1st	2 10 21 29 40
2025-08-02	11	1st	2 8 19 27 28
2025-07-22	6	1st	2 6 19 25 28
2025-07-16	3	1st	2 6 8 9 18
2025-07-13	4	1st	2 7 25 31 36
2025-07-09	5	1st	2 3 8 13 20
2025-07-04	11	1st	2 24 28 31 34
2025-06-23	9	1st	2 11 14 22 24
2025-06-14	1	1st	2 6 24 31 37
2025-06-13	1	1st	2 9 26 28 32
2025-06-12	8	1st	2 6 14 15 38
2025-06-04	11	1st	2 3 20 29 33
2025-05-24	4	1st	2 5 7 8 39
2025-05-20	12	1st	2 14 19 24 27
2025-05-08	23	1st	2 3 10 15 34
2025-04-15	9	1st	2 10 20 27 39
2025-04-06	6	1st	2 20 34 37 40
2025-03-31	12	1st	2 6 13 15 38
2025-03-19	19	1st	2 6 7 9 29
2025-02-28	2	1st	2 9 10 20 32
2025-02-26	8	1st	2 18 23 25 34
2025-02-18	2	2nd	1 2 5 27 40
2025-02-16	7	1st	2 12 15 38 40
2025-02-09	1	1st	2 25 30 37 41
2025-02-08	2	1st	2 8 10 15 42
2025-02-06	13	1st	2 4 5 12 32
2025-01-24	3	1st	2 3 27 33 40
2025-01-21	4	1st	2 4 9 38 39
2025-01-17	1	1st	2 10 14 28 38
2025-01-16	17	1st	2 8 9 14 35
2024-12-30	8	1st	2 13 15 37 40
2024-12-22	1	1st	2 15 25 28 29
2024-12-21	3	1st	2 23 32 38 40
2024-12-18	6	1st	2 6 10 12 15
2024-12-12	19	1st	2 3 5 8 13
2024-11-23	3	1st	2 12 19 25 32
2024-11-20	10	1st	2 23 25 30 37
2024-11-10	5	2nd	1 2 28 30 40
2024-11-05	3	1st	2 12 15 28 31
2024-11-02	31	1st	2 5 21 29 39
2024-10-02	18	1st	2 4 17 22 41
2024-09-14	1	1st	2 16 29 33 34
2024-09-13	22	2nd	1 2 4 8 16
2024-08-22	4	1st	2 14 28 37 42
2024-08-18	2	1st	2 9 12 17 21
2024-08-16	14	1st	2 18 19 23 41
2024-08-02	9	1st	2 10 13 26 30
2024-07-24	29	1st	2 29 34 35 40
2024-06-25	4	1st	2 6 29 35 37
2024-06-21	9	1st	2 9 15 31 42
2024-06-12	12	1st	2 27 34 36 39
2024-05-31	1	2nd	1 2 10 16 26
2024-05-30	2	2nd	1 2 7 25 29
2024-05-28	7	2nd	1 2 7 28 30
2024-05-21	2	1st	2 7 24 31 32
2024-05-19	9	1st	2 9 22 35 40
2024-05-10	18	1st	2 30 31 33 38
2024-04-22	14	1st	2 20 23 36 42
2024-04-08	4	1st	2 30 33 36 38
2024-04-04	1	1st	2 3 7 24 42
2024-04-03	5	1st	2 4 22 37 41
2024-03-29	2	1st	2 5 9 16 17
2024-03-27	2	1st	2 3 17 25 40
2024-03-25	5	1st	2 3 7 13 37
2024-03-20	—	1st	2 3 10 37 38