Number 8

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

13times drawn · chance expected 18 −1.20σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

30longest completed wait · 24% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −1.20σ. 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 13 times in 145 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 30 · 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 5.7
2nd smallest9 · chance 5.4
3rd smallest0 · chance 1.7
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 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 38 45 47 26 29

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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
2026-09-26	4	1st	8 29 34 36 38 43
2026-09-12	15	2nd	3 8 17 26 44 47
2026-07-22	11	1st	8 25 27 28 36 38
2026-06-13	4	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.