Number 8

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

10times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.40σ

19draws waiting · a wait this long: 10% for any number

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

19longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −0.40σ. Each draw is independent: after 19 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 92 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 19 · waiting 19 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 4.4
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 1.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.2
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 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

4 28 29 7 12 14

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 17 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
2026-08-05	7	3rd	1 4 8 26 28 29
2026-07-11	6	2nd	4 8 12 28 37 49
2026-06-20	1	2nd	2 8 19 33 35 39
2026-06-17	19	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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.