Number 2

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 110 draws, 4 from 1–35.

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.17σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

22longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 110 draws against 12.6 expected, −0.17σ. 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 12 times in 110 draws · average wait 7.2 draws · longest completed wait 22 · 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 smallest11 · chance 10.9
2nd smallest1 · chance 1.1
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 8 17 3 11 23

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 34 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 35. 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
2026-10-12	10	1st	2 8 25 28
2026-09-07	2	1st	2 32 33 34
2026-08-31	1	1st	2 3 4 11
2026-08-27	22	1st	2 10 17 30
2026-06-11	22

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.