Number 2

In PowerBall under the 5/50 + 1/20 · since Jun 2018 rules — 865 draws, 5 from 1–50.

79times drawn · chance expected 87 −0.85σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 66% for any number

10.9average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

46longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

2 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 865 draws against 86.5 expected, −0.85σ. 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 79 times in 865 draws · average wait 10.9 draws · longest completed wait 46 · 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 smallest75 · chance 72.6
2nd smallest4 · chance 6.4
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 6.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

49 24 31 47 11 20

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 49 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 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 50. 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
2026-09-22	1	1st	2 28 31 38 50
2026-09-18	8	1st	2 4 6 8 43
2026-08-21	12	1st	2 4 5 24 49
2026-07-10	7	1st	2 12 13 20

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-07-19	1	1st	2 6 9 31 37
2024-07-16	2	1st	2 10 22 48 49
2024-07-09	12	1st	2 7 19 31 45
2024-05-28	6	1st	2 3 23 39 45
2024-05-07	16	1st	2 4 10 39 40
2024-03-12	2	1st	2 18 21 47 48
2024-03-05	8	1st	2 4 23 27 31
2024-02-06	9	1st	2 6 10 18 28
2024-01-05	8	1st	2 18 31 43 50
2023-12-08	38	1st	2 22 24 32 33
2023-07-28	23	1st	2 6 11 20 47
2023-05-09	1	1st	2 4 16 17 34
2023-05-05	4	1st	2 20 24 29 43
2023-04-21	15	1st	2 3 6 12 49
2023-02-28	3	1st	2 14 21 22 40
2023-02-17	13	2nd	1 2 4 19 24
2023-01-03	7	1st	2 21 33 39 42
2022-12-09	17	1st	2 9 17 45 48
2022-10-11	10	1st	2 12 25 29 34
2022-09-06	22	1st	2 8 26 31 34
2022-06-21	9	1st	2 6 18 40 50
2022-05-20	7	1st	2 14 19 24 39
2022-04-26	19	1st	2 20 38 43 46
2022-02-18	1	1st	2 15 31 47 48
2022-02-15	3	1st	2 9 26 27 32
2022-02-04	11	1st	2 10 11 23 24
2021-12-28	8	1st	2 13 16 49 50
2021-11-30	5	1st	2 17 22 31 35
2021-11-12	11	1st	2 24 27 41 49
2021-10-05	8	1st	2 13 20 42 47
2021-09-07	1	1st	2 11 13 19 40
2021-09-03	15	1st	2 9 18 42 43
2021-07-13	25	1st	2 28 29 38 42
2021-04-16	22	1st	2 5 12 25 49
2021-01-29	24	1st	2 11 16 22 47
2020-11-03	11	2nd	1 2 25 36 39
2020-09-25	6	1st	2 17 18 27 37
2020-09-04	17	1st	2 3 11 12 43
2020-07-07	1	1st	2 7 13 20 45
2020-07-03	1	1st	2 7 15 25 41
2020-06-30	2	1st	2 11 27 36 39
2020-06-23	37	1st	2 7 16 36 47
2020-02-14	2	1st	2 19 40 49 50
2020-02-07	21	1st	2 4 29 38 47
2019-11-26	9	1st	2 8 11 13 32
2019-10-25	14	1st	2 21 29 37 49
2019-09-06	8	1st	2 20 25 40 49
2019-08-09	15	1st	2 18 34 37 48
2019-06-18	46	1st	2 3 17 20 33
2019-01-08	19	1st	2 15 35 44 46
2018-11-02	2	1st	2 30 36 42 47
2018-10-26	3	1st	2 15 19 24 38
2018-10-16	1	1st	2 8 27 35 41
2018-10-12	19	2nd	1 2 11 19 44
2018-08-07	—	1st	2 3 19 24 30