Number 8

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

6times drawn · chance expected 7 −0.41σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 65% for any number

8.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

20longest completed wait · 28% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 6 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, −0.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 6 times in 52 draws · average wait 8.0 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 4 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 smallest2 · chance 2.4
2nd smallest1 · chance 2.5
3rd smallest3 · chance 0.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

41 6 7 30 43 52

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 25 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 52. 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
2026-09-25	2	1st	8 24 38 41 43 50 52
2026-09-18	6	2nd	6 8 11 14 30 39 41
2026-08-28	10	3rd	1 7 8 10 41 42 48

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.