Number 8

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 641 draws, 5 from 1–34.

96times drawn · chance expected 94 +0.19σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

35longest completed wait · 35% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 641 draws against 94.3 expected, +0.19σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 641 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 35 · 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 small number the low positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest38 · chance 35.1
2nd smallest40 · chance 42.7
3rd smallest16 · chance 16.0
4th smallest2 · chance 2.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 11.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 11 6 15 17 32

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 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 34. 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	6	2nd	4 8 11 14 16
2026-10-05	11	4th	1 5 6 8 28
2026-09-24	26	2nd	3 8 12 16 25
2026-08-29	7	2nd	6 8 19 24

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-10	6	2nd	1 8 20 23 24
2026-04-04	5	3rd	3 6 8 15 19
2026-03-30	10	1st	8 10 11 18 33
2026-03-20	5	1st	8 10 23 28 30
2026-03-15	8	2nd	1 8 16 23 27
2026-03-07	13	1st	8 20 22 27 32
2026-02-22	3	1st	8 10 11 20 24
2026-02-19	2	1st	8 9 16 17 32
2026-02-17	6	1st	8 9 22 24 32
2026-02-11	7	2nd	4 8 17 29 32
2026-02-04	3	1st	8 15 21 29 33
2026-02-01	3	2nd	1 8 11 12 34
2026-01-29	5	3rd	3 5 8 15 18
2026-01-24	7	1st	8 10 16 22 27
2026-01-17	1	1st	8 13 19 22 33
2026-01-16	5	2nd	5 8 11 13 31
2026-01-11	24	3rd	4 6 8 9 11
2025-12-18	8	1st	8 12 24 25 28
2025-12-10	14	1st	8 18 28 29 32
2025-11-26	4	3rd	2 6 8 11 23
2025-11-22	14	3rd	2 3 8 13 17
2025-11-08	2	3rd	2 5 8 12 27
2025-11-06	14	2nd	1 8 9 14 34
2025-10-23	6	3rd	2 6 8 20 22
2025-10-17	1	2nd	2 8 15 17 33
2025-10-16	23	1st	8 9 11 13 25
2025-09-23	15	1st	8 13 25 27 31
2025-09-08	35	1st	8 10 30 31 32
2025-08-04	14	2nd	6 8 11 21 25
2025-07-21	4	1st	8 19 20 27 29
2025-07-17	4	2nd	2 8 14 28 34
2025-07-13	2	1st	8 10 15 21 32
2025-07-11	1	2nd	4 8 28 32 34
2025-07-10	3	1st	8 21 22 32 34
2025-07-07	4	1st	8 10 17 21 24
2025-07-03	3	2nd	7 8 15 27 32
2025-06-30	2	2nd	4 8 13 15 17
2025-06-28	7	1st	8 13 20 28 29
2025-06-21	3	1st	8 12 15 24 32
2025-06-18	2	4th	2 3 4 8 10
2025-06-16	2	1st	8 9 11 23 27
2025-06-14	11	1st	8 20 24 27 34
2025-06-03	4	1st	8 18 23 28 33
2025-05-30	2	1st	8 10 19 33 34
2025-05-28	6	2nd	5 8 21 26 30
2025-05-22	4	2nd	3 8 17 20 27
2025-05-18	2	2nd	1 8 15 22 26
2025-05-16	1	2nd	5 8 14 28 33
2025-05-15	6	2nd	4 8 15 20 32
2025-05-09	3	2nd	5 8 17 18 19
2025-05-06	7	1st	8 15 18 19 32
2025-04-29	4	2nd	7 8 18 24 30
2025-04-25	7	2nd	5 8 19 20 27
2025-04-18	7	1st	8 10 25 27 31
2025-04-11	10	2nd	1 8 9 28 29
2025-04-01	8	2nd	4 8 11 13 32
2025-03-24	5	1st	8 12 14 28 34
2025-03-19	1	1st	8 21 24 26 34
2025-03-18	3	2nd	6 8 15 19 34
2025-03-15	3	2nd	2 8 14 25 26
2025-03-12	2	2nd	2 8 9 11 17
2025-03-10	18	3rd	6 7 8 12 14
2025-02-20	11	2nd	6 8 17 20 25
2025-02-09	5	1st	8 13 15 17 33
2025-02-04	3	2nd	4 8 11 16 27
2025-02-01	9	2nd	1 8 11 16 34
2025-01-23	1	1st	8 10 18 22 29
2025-01-22	2	1st	8 15 17 21 23
2025-01-20	1	2nd	1 8 23 24 30
2025-01-19	2	3rd	1 4 8 12 21
2025-01-17	1	2nd	5 8 13 25 33
2025-01-16	—	3rd	6 7 8 21 27