Number 8

In Powerball under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,418 draws, 5 from 1–69.

96times drawn · chance expected 103 −0.69σ

23draws waiting · a wait this long: 19% for any number

14.4average wait between appearances · chance says 13.8

64longest completed wait · 57% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 1,418 draws against 102.8 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 23 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 1,418 draws · average wait 14.4 draws · longest completed wait 64 · waiting 23 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 smallest67 · chance 61.5
2nd smallest29 · chance 29.7
3rd smallest0 · chance 4.5
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

27 52 12 40 53 15

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 68 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 1.16× as often as an indifferent choice — 2nd most popular of 69. 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 ×1.14
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.06
Culturally lucky numbers 3, 8, 9 ×1.04

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 8 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-17	1	1st	8 15 25 49 65
2026-08-15	5	2nd	5 8 27 29 63
2026-08-03	10	1st	8 30 41 48 54
2026-07-11	24	1st	8 10 14 45

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 5/69 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-09-16	6	1st	8 9 11 27 31
2024-09-02	8	1st	8 42 46 48 53
2024-08-14	29	1st	8 9 23 29 62
2024-06-08	1	1st	8 38 52 54 64
2024-06-05	44	1st	8 44 45 51 69
2024-02-24	29	2nd	3 8 40 53 58
2023-12-18	2	2nd	5 8 19 34 39
2023-12-13	38	2nd	3 8 41 56 64
2023-09-16	26	1st	8 11 19 24 46
2023-07-17	64	2nd	5 8 9 17 41
2023-02-18	6	1st	8 21 31 32 37
2023-02-04	10	2nd	2 8 15 19 58
2023-01-11	36	2nd	4 8 46 47 48
2022-10-19	8	2nd	6 8 15 27 42
2022-10-01	13	1st	8 21 22 65 69
2022-08-31	11	2nd	7 8 19 24 28
2022-08-06	16	1st	8 15 46 56 68
2022-06-29	31	1st	8 40 49 58 63
2022-04-18	13	1st	8 33 55 59 62
2022-03-19	6	1st	8 9 18 48 52
2022-03-05	9	1st	8 23 37 52 63
2022-02-12	9	1st	8 10 21 41 62
2022-01-22	24	1st	8 14 33 36 67
2021-11-27	6	1st	8 32 55 64 66
2021-11-13	3	1st	8 15 26 35 45
2021-11-06	46	1st	8 30 48 57 64
2021-07-07	3	1st	8 21 30 49 57
2021-06-26	4	1st	8 31 39 43 60
2021-06-12	5	1st	8 25 34 38 41
2021-05-26	27	2nd	2 8 21 34 62
2021-02-20	8	2nd	4 8 22 32 58
2021-01-23	16	2nd	5 8 17 27 28
2020-11-28	19	1st	8 12 18 44 51
2020-09-23	8	1st	8 17 49 52 59
2020-08-26	27	1st	8 12 19 47 58
2020-05-23	2	2nd	2 8 18 21 23
2020-05-16	3	1st	8 12 26 39 42
2020-05-06	9	2nd	7 8 35 50 65
2020-04-04	11	1st	8 31 39 40 43
2020-02-26	24	1st	8 27 29 36 47
2019-12-04	18	1st	8 27 44 51 61
2019-10-02	8	2nd	4 8 10 43 53
2019-09-04	8	2nd	4 8 30 52 59
2019-08-07	9	1st	8 32 47 53 59
2019-07-06	6	2nd	4 8 23 46 65
2019-06-15	10	1st	8 11 14 16 49
2019-05-11	25	2nd	6 8 9 37 40
2019-02-13	5	2nd	2 8 14 24 69
2019-01-26	2	1st	8 12 20 21 32
2019-01-19	5	2nd	5 8 41 65 66
2019-01-02	5	1st	8 12 42 46 56
2018-12-15	8	1st	8 38 43 52 55
2018-11-17	6	2nd	6 8 20 52 68
2018-10-27	5	1st	8 12 13 19 27
2018-10-10	54	1st	8 23 27 42 60
2018-04-04	1	1st	8 24 42 54 64
2018-03-31	1	1st	8 24 52 55 61
2018-03-28	35	2nd	6 8 26 52 53
2017-11-25	16	1st	8 13 27 53 54
2017-09-30	1	1st	8 12 25 41 64
2017-09-27	6	1st	8 10 21 23 25
2017-09-06	17	1st	8 14 32 58 67
2017-07-08	25	1st	8 10 29 40 59
2017-04-12	2	1st	8 14 61 63 68
2017-04-05	2	1st	8 20 46 53 54
2017-03-29	29	1st	8 15 31 36 62
2016-12-17	4	2nd	1 8 16 40 48
2016-12-03	6	1st	8 10 26 27 33
2016-11-12	11	1st	8 17 20 27 52
2016-10-05	56	1st	8 18 27 29 60
2016-03-23	20	2nd	5 8 15 22 49
2016-01-13	—	2nd	4 8 19 27 34