Number 8

In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 727 draws, 5 from 1–55.

77times drawn · chance expected 66 +1.41σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0

48longest completed wait · 58% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, +1.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 727 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 48 · waiting 1 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 smallest42 · chance 43.4
2nd smallest26 · chance 27.6
3rd smallest8 · chance 5.5
4th smallest1 · chance 0.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

51 54 10 16 24 2

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 54 numbers; chance expected about 0.2 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 55. 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
2026-10-11	10	1st	8 23 24 45 46
2026-10-01	2	2nd	5 8 19 39 50
2026-09-29	1	2nd	2 8 14 26 28
2026-09-28	13	1st	8 13 31

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 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-01-18	3	1st	8 17 18 19 33
2026-01-15	21	2nd	6 8 35 41 51
2025-12-25	11	2nd	3 8 40 41 51
2025-12-13	6	1st	8 15 16 35 40
2025-12-07	1	2nd	4 8 42 50 55
2025-12-06	3	1st	8 9 11 13 22
2025-12-03	9	1st	8 11 21 24 46
2025-11-24	7	1st	8 17 38 45 46
2025-11-17	4	1st	8 9 46 53 54
2025-11-04	7	3rd	2 6 8 23 54
2025-10-28	19	2nd	6 8 21 38 49
2025-10-06	2	3rd	2 4 8 9 54
2025-10-04	5	1st	8 16 24 35 51
2025-09-29	44	1st	8 18 22 34 46
2025-08-16	8	1st	8 13 22 32 51
2025-08-08	5	2nd	6 8 31 42 51
2025-08-03	12	1st	8 14 24 44 54
2025-07-22	2	1st	8 16 23 36 43
2025-07-20	11	2nd	3 8 9 10 29
2025-07-09	8	1st	8 10 38 52 54
2025-07-01	9	1st	8 10 16 19 46
2025-06-22	7	2nd	3 8 24 36 40
2025-06-15	4	2nd	1 8 32 38 52
2025-06-11	1	1st	8 32 48 52 54
2025-06-10	4	1st	8 26 49 52 53
2025-06-06	2	1st	8 14 15 21 55
2025-06-04	6	1st	8 9 18 33 54
2025-05-29	5	2nd	7 8 32 35 41
2025-05-24	6	3rd	1 4 8 36 42
2025-05-18	2	1st	8 14 21 31 41
2025-05-16	15	1st	8 9 16 25 33
2025-05-01	5	2nd	5 8 25 43 55
2025-04-26	11	2nd	1 8 17 37 45
2025-04-15	3	1st	8 10 26 31 47
2025-04-12	24	1st	8 11 16 22 51
2025-03-19	30	1st	8 29 31 48 53
2025-02-17	8	2nd	5 8 11 16 24
2025-02-09	1	1st	8 22 23 26 54
2025-02-08	3	3rd	3 6 8 23 28
2025-02-05	22	1st	8 17 37 41 42
2025-01-14	9	1st	8 10 13 16 30
2025-01-05	10	1st	8 27 44 47 50
2024-12-26	5	1st	8 10 27 31 42
2024-12-21	5	2nd	7 8 27 29 36
2024-12-16	4	1st	8 16 27 30 31
2024-12-12	21	2nd	7 8 10 18 48
2024-11-21	12	2nd	2 8 14 31 51
2024-11-09	8	3rd	1 3 8 37 53
2024-11-01	10	1st	8 25 35 39 40
2024-10-22	4	1st	8 19 20 46 51
2024-10-18	12	2nd	2 8 21 24 54
2024-10-06	10	3rd	3 4 8 43 46
2024-09-26	—	2nd	4 8 13 45 51