Number 8

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 158 draws, 5 from 1–49.

17times drawn · chance expected 16 +0.23σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 52% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

29longest completed wait · 55% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 158 draws against 16.1 expected, +0.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 158 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 29 · waiting 7 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 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 smallest7 · chance 8.8
2nd smallest7 · chance 6.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 9 33 5 7 14

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 such strangers 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 49. 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
2026-09-14	15	2nd	7 8 19 41 44
2026-07-23	4	1st	8 26 33 39 42
2026-07-09	4	2nd	7 8 14 16 24
2026-06-25	9	1st	8 23 24 40

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.