Number 8

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 4 from 1–45.

10times drawn · chance expected 10 +0.17σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 76% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

39longest completed wait · 23% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws against 9.5 expected, +0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 107 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 39 · 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 smallest4 · chance 5.9
2nd smallest5 · chance 3.5
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.6
4th 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.

4 10 13 14 21 23

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 22 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
2026-09-12	8	1st	8 18 23 43
2026-07-18	13	2nd	6 8 10 21
2026-04-18	2	2nd	3 8 13 28
2026-04-04	7	3rd	1 4 8 13
2026-02-14

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.