Number 8

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

92times drawn · chance expected 84 +0.91σ

34draws waiting · a wait this long: 2% for any number

8.3average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

41longest completed wait · 64% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 92 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, +0.91σ. Each draw is independent: after 34 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 92 times in 791 draws · average wait 8.3 draws · longest completed wait 41 · waiting 34 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 smallest57 · chance 46.4
2nd smallest31 · chance 36.1
3rd smallest4 · chance 8.8
4th smallest0 · chance 0.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

32 19 28 4 17 20

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 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 47. 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
2026-06-15	3	2nd	7 8 14 17 20
2026-06-04	1	2nd	4 8 26 32 46
2026-06-01	7	1st	8 12 33 35 45
2026-05-07	1	1st	8 13 26 34

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-12-30	6	1st	8 13 28 29 35
2024-12-09	6	2nd	5 8 21 22 40
2024-11-18	8	2nd	2 8 10 19 24
2024-10-21	15	1st	8 15 19 32 38
2024-08-29	7	2nd	4 8 21 25 43
2024-08-05	2	1st	8 23 31 38 47
2024-07-29	8	2nd	6 8 11 24 45
2024-07-01	1	3rd	4 6 8 19 34
2024-06-27	41	1st	8 15 27 32 33
2024-02-05	13	3rd	3 4 8 10 28
2023-12-21	28	2nd	4 8 17 18 21
2023-09-14	9	1st	8 27 33 34 44
2023-08-14	23	1st	8 15 17 31 41
2023-05-25	9	1st	8 14 16 32 37
2023-04-24	3	2nd	4 8 10 38 43
2023-04-13	35	2nd	7 8 14 17 45
2022-12-12	14	1st	8 19 26 32 37
2022-10-24	1	1st	8 15 20 35 38
2022-10-20	3	2nd	3 8 13 29 36
2022-10-10	3	1st	8 9 16 21 37
2022-09-29	2	1st	8 11 16 26 47
2022-09-22	7	1st	8 11 36 39 40
2022-08-29	3	2nd	3 8 14 31 47
2022-08-18	1	1st	8 17 20 35 40
2022-08-15	7	1st	8 10 18 21 40
2022-07-21	3	1st	8 24 26 37 43
2022-07-11	12	1st	8 18 23 24 43
2022-05-30	10	1st	8 16 37 43 45
2022-04-25	5	1st	8 15 31 37 40
2022-04-07	5	1st	8 11 19 31 33
2022-03-21	20	2nd	3 8 23 30 32
2022-01-10	19	1st	8 13 15 35 47
2021-11-04	6	2nd	4 8 11 26 34
2021-10-14	16	2nd	2 8 24 38 41
2021-08-19	1	1st	8 31 39 42 47
2021-08-16	4	1st	8 13 19 31 46
2021-08-02	1	2nd	6 8 9 37 39
2021-07-29	3	1st	8 32 37 40 45
2021-07-19	1	1st	8 9 36 44 46
2021-07-15	2	2nd	7 8 11 27 42
2021-07-08	9	1st	8 20 28 33 47
2021-06-07	1	1st	8 17 19 27 43
2021-06-03	3	1st	8 26 39 40 45
2021-05-24	6	1st	8 18 20 29 40
2021-05-03	2	2nd	1 8 12 22 32
2021-04-26	10	1st	8 12 13 21 25
2021-03-22	5	1st	8 19 29 34 35
2021-03-04	14	2nd	4 8 18 28 44
2021-01-14	30	2nd	2 8 9 25 43
2020-10-01	2	2nd	1 8 9 20 45
2020-09-24	6	2nd	3 8 17 22 36
2020-09-03	22	1st	8 10 26 31 32
2020-06-18	4	2nd	6 8 28 32 44
2020-06-04	18	1st	8 9 27 28 47
2020-04-02	7	1st	8 9 17 35 46
2020-03-09	2	2nd	4 8 25 37 38
2020-03-02	3	1st	8 28 39 45 47
2020-02-20	7	1st	8 19 21 38 42
2020-01-27	3	1st	8 14 16 19 25
2020-01-16	5	1st	8 15 29 30 47
2019-12-30	4	1st	8 18 21 23 44
2019-12-16	4	1st	8 10 16 23 39
2019-12-02	13	1st	8 20 22 33 34
2019-10-17	18	1st	8 14 18 29 46
2019-08-15	7	2nd	4 8 15 17 32
2019-07-22	24	1st	8 23 26 28 31
2019-04-29	9	2nd	6 8 13 20 28
2019-03-28	—	1st	8 16 36 39 44