Number 8

In Québec 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.70σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 14% for any number

9.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

31longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.70σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.1 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 16 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 smallest8 · chance 6.6
2nd smallest6 · chance 6.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 2.0
4th smallest1 · 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 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 35 39 42 6 40

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 48 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 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
2026-08-15	3	1st	8 10 29 30 42 46
2026-08-05	6	2nd	6 8 12 20 31 35
2026-07-15	10	2nd	7 8 21 35 41 43
2026-06-10	18	2nd	5

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.