Number 8

In Powerball under the 7/35 + 1/20 · since Apr 2018 rules — 443 draws, 7 from 1–35.

77times drawn · chance expected 89 −1.38σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.7average wait between appearances · chance says 5.0

26longest completed wait · 25% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 443 draws against 88.6 expected, −1.38σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 443 draws · average wait 5.7 draws · longest completed wait 26 · 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 8 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 smallest12 · chance 16.9
2nd smallest30 · chance 32.4
3rd smallest23 · chance 21.1
4th smallest11 · chance 5.9
5th smallest1 · chance 0.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

11 12 18 2 7 9

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 8 is picked about 1.48× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd 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
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 8 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-10-08	3	2nd	7 8 10 12 15 19 20
2026-09-17	14	2nd	1 8 15 17 19 22 34
2026-06-11	15	2nd	2 8 9 11 17 24 25

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: 8 is drawn with probability 7/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2023-11-02	4	2nd	6 8 11 12 22 23 30
2023-10-05	6	3rd	3 4 8 11 14 19 22
2023-08-24	8	2nd	3 8 11 17 18 20 33
2023-06-29	5	4th	1 3 5 8 18 24 28
2023-05-25	2	1st	8 12 17 20 27 29 30
2023-05-11	12	2nd	3 8 9 12 15 18 28
2023-02-16	1	2nd	5 8 12 13 20 21 35
2023-02-09	10	2nd	3 8 11 16 28 32 35
2022-12-01	4	5th	2 4 5 7 8 29 34
2022-11-03	10	3rd	2 6 8 12 22 24 32
2022-08-25	5	2nd	4 8 12 16 25 31 32
2022-07-21	7	3rd	2 7 8 9 24 25 26
2022-06-02	2	2nd	6 8 11 15 21 31 33
2022-05-19	26	2nd	5 8 11 15 27 28 34
2021-11-18	2	4th	1 3 5 8 13 19 34
2021-11-04	6	1st	8 12 15 18 27 30 34
2021-09-23	1	2nd	3 8 10 14 21 23 24
2021-09-16	1	2nd	1 8 9 22 30 31 32
2021-09-09	3	4th	2 3 6 8 17 20 23
2021-08-19	6	3rd	2 7 8 9 10 26 30
2021-07-08	2	2nd	7 8 9 15 17 19 32
2021-06-24	5	1st	8 13 21 28 30 31 33
2021-05-20	1	4th	2 5 7 8 11 14 18
2021-05-13	9	3rd	5 7 8 11 12 19 25
2021-03-11	10	2nd	1 8 14 17 19 21 26
2020-12-31	3	4th	1 2 7 8 11 16 28
2020-12-10	11	2nd	4 8 9 11 14 19 20
2020-09-24	2	3rd	1 3 8 11 13 31 32
2020-09-10	3	2nd	2 8 9 10 19 23 29
2020-08-20	8	1st	8 12 17 18 21 23 35
2020-06-25	5	1st	8 12 18 20 24 27 35
2020-05-21	1	2nd	7 8 9 18 23 30 32
2020-05-14	4	3rd	3 4 8 22 23 24 31
2020-04-16	11	1st	8 12 15 18 19 24 25
2020-01-30	6	2nd	5 8 9 17 20 22 35
2019-12-19	5	2nd	4 8 9 10 11 29 32
2019-11-14	8	1st	8 10 20 24 26 28 32
2019-09-19	3	3rd	4 5 8 17 18 26 31
2019-08-29	7	1st	8 9 11 20 22 27 32
2019-07-11	4	3rd	6 7 8 21 27 28 34
2019-06-13	1	3rd	1 5 8 11 17 23 25
2019-06-06	5	3rd	2 7 8 11 31 33 35
2019-05-02	3	4th	2 4 6 8 9 11 33
2019-04-11	4	1st	8 15 18 19 20 22 32
2019-03-14	7	3rd	2 5 8 17 20 24 27
2019-01-24	3	2nd	2 8 17 19 23 29 35
2019-01-03	1	2nd	7 8 11 12 19 25 33
2018-12-27	2	3rd	5 7 8 9 17 18 29
2018-12-13	6	2nd	7 8 15 24 26 28 35
2018-11-01	6	2nd	4 8 11 17 24 30 35
2018-09-20	8	3rd	2 6 8 10 17 20 30
2018-07-26	8	3rd	1 7 8 22 28 31 32
2018-05-31	—	1st	8 9 18 27 29 30 32