In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 792 draws, 1 from 1–10.
71times drawn · chance expected 79 −0.97σ
0draws waiting — it came up last time
11.2average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0
40longest completed wait · 69% chance of one at least that long
8 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 71 times in 792 draws against 79.2 expected, −0.97σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
8
Number 8, draw by draw
Drawn 71 times in 792 draws · average wait 11.2 draws · longest completed wait 40 · drawn in the most recent draw
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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.
Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 9 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 10. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 1/10 tonight whatever it did last week.
Set for Life number 8 (star deck) — how often, how long a wait, and with whom — LotteryOracle