Number 8

In MegaDice Lotto under the 6/39 + 1/39 · since Sep 2024 rules — 733 draws, 6 from 1–39.

104times drawn · chance expected 113 −0.90σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 37% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 6.5

31longest completed wait · 50% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 104 times in 733 draws against 112.8 expected, −0.90σ. 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 20 times, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 104 times in 733 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 31 · 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 smallest40 · chance 35.2
2nd smallest50 · chance 45.6
3rd smallest13 · chance 19.6
4th smallest1 · chance 3.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 13.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 37 25 31 19 27

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 38 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 39. 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
2026-10-04	2	2nd	1 8 13 18 20 33
2026-10-02	2	2nd	2 8 20 23 28 33
2026-09-30	2	2nd	4 8 11 14 17 39
2026-09-28

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 6/39 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-05-20	6	2nd	5 8 12 13 29 36
2026-05-14	13	2nd	6 8 12 16 22 31
2026-05-01	3	2nd	3 8 16 24 26 31
2026-04-28	8	1st	8 9 16 26 34 37
2026-04-20	31	1st	8 11 16 19 27 29
2026-03-20	13	1st	8 12 24 25 28 36
2026-03-07	14	1st	8 10 14 19 24 39
2026-02-21	13	1st	8 17 20 31 32 37
2026-02-08	8	1st	8 11 15 22 27 33
2026-01-31	1	2nd	3 8 15 25 34 37
2026-01-30	5	1st	8 12 13 18 20 25
2026-01-25	6	1st	8 9 17 27 29 37
2026-01-19	5	2nd	7 8 9 10 11 38
2026-01-14	3	1st	8 14 17 19 21 31
2026-01-11	2	2nd	2 8 22 24 27 39
2026-01-09	7	2nd	5 8 21 24 25 32
2026-01-02	6	1st	8 19 24 25 29 38
2025-12-27	21	2nd	2 8 13 14 31 36
2025-12-06	9	2nd	2 8 9 11 15 33
2025-11-27	1	2nd	3 8 9 22 24 36
2025-11-26	4	3rd	2 7 8 17 20 25
2025-11-22	3	2nd	5 8 22 25 29 32
2025-11-19	4	2nd	6 8 14 24 29 35
2025-11-07	7	2nd	3 8 17 21 27 35
2025-10-31	7	1st	8 10 11 16 22 30
2025-10-24	15	1st	8 13 18 27 32 37
2025-10-04	17	3rd	5 7 8 19 30 35
2025-09-17	8	2nd	2 8 11 19 36 37
2025-09-09	2	1st	8 22 23 30 32 38
2025-09-07	10	2nd	2 8 15 16 22 30
2025-08-28	1	3rd	6 7 8 17 19 26
2025-08-27	4	1st	8 12 15 16 24 28
2025-08-23	2	1st	8 13 19 23 30 31
2025-08-21	6	2nd	1 8 10 15 30 36
2025-08-15	19	1st	8 17 19 24 31 38
2025-07-27	27	3rd	4 6 8 10 23 36
2025-06-30	3	2nd	2 8 14 27 33 34
2025-06-27	2	2nd	1 8 24 27 33 37
2025-06-25	4	1st	8 11 13 20 26 35
2025-06-21	19	2nd	3 8 10 12 15 23
2025-06-02	8	2nd	4 8 19 20 22 24
2025-05-25	2	3rd	1 6 8 13 26 31
2025-05-23	1	2nd	7 8 22 23 31 38
2025-05-22	10	1st	8 16 32 34 37 38
2025-05-12	1	2nd	2 8 28 32 34 37
2025-05-11	13	2nd	7 8 13 15 19 32
2025-04-28	17	1st	8 9 24 27 29 30
2025-04-11	1	1st	8 14 18 25 37 38
2025-04-10	8	2nd	2 8 16 20 24 32
2025-04-02	3	2nd	3 8 24 25 31 33
2025-03-30	1	2nd	4 8 12 29 33 37
2025-03-29	6	1st	8 16 17 31 33 37
2025-03-23	1	2nd	6 8 17 21 31 35
2025-03-22	11	2nd	3 8 11 15 34 35
2025-03-11	5	4th	1 5 6 8 32 35
2025-03-06	15	3rd	2 6 8 18 27 31
2025-02-19	17	1st	8 15 18 21 23 24
2025-02-02	5	2nd	6 8 14 16 17 25
2025-01-28	15	2nd	6 8 15 24 27 34
2025-01-13	1	1st	8 17 19 25 27 29
2025-01-12	4	1st	8 11 17 28 29 39
2025-01-08	17	1st	8 18 19 21 26 32
2024-12-22	10	1st	8 14 21 23 25 35
2024-12-12	11	2nd	4 8 13 30 38 39
2024-12-01	8	2nd	5 8 10 12 24 37
2024-11-23	3	1st	8 11 20 21 22 25
2024-11-20	3	3rd	1 3 8 10 23 37
2024-11-17	6	1st	8 10 15 26 30 39
2024-11-11	1	2nd	1 8 22 26 35 39
2024-11-10	4	2nd	3 8 15 19 27 28
2024-11-06	7	2nd	7 8 13 16 17 22
2024-10-30	11	3rd	4 6 8 9 27 36
2024-10-19	2	3rd	3 7 8 19 34 37
2024-10-17	1	2nd	4 8 9 20 25 38
2024-10-16	3	1st	8 19 20 27 31 33
2024-10-13	2	1st	8 9 25 26 28 31
2024-10-11	3	2nd	5 8 16 35 38 39
2024-10-08	2	2nd	3 8 13 18 31 38
2024-10-06	1	1st	8 24 28 29 30 32
2024-10-05	—	2nd	7 8 12 26 32 37