Number 8

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.36σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 42% for any number

8.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

21longest completed wait · 51% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.36σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 0 times, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 107 draws · average wait 8.1 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 smallest3 · chance 5.2
2nd smallest8 · chance 5.5
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

2 15 10 33 34 38

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 45. 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
2026-08-22	9	2nd	2 8 15 21 36 40
2026-06-20	10	3rd	2 6 8 15 24 34
2026-04-11	3	1st	8 10 19 28 33 38
2026-03-21	3	2nd

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.