Number 8

In Lotto Max under the 7/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2009 – May 2019 rules — 503 draws, 7 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

81times drawn · chance expected 72 +1.16σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 8% for any number

6.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

23longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 503 draws against 71.9 expected, +1.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 8 times, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 503 draws · average wait 6.1 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 17 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 smallest34 · chance 29.7
2nd smallest32 · chance 34.6
3rd smallest10 · chance 14.0
4th smallest4 · chance 2.5
5th smallest1 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 24 30 20 17 7

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 48 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 49. 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
2019-01-11	6	1st	8 15 21 28 29 30 39
2018-11-30	5	2nd	5 8 15 20 25 26 47
2018-10-26	3	4th	2 3 4 8 9

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 7/49 tonight whatever it did last week.

2016-05-13	1	3rd	3 6 8 17 21 28 34
2016-05-06	7	2nd	1 8 10 24 26 37 45
2016-03-18	6	2nd	6 8 15 24 26 39 44
2016-02-05	6	3rd	6 7 8 9 17 23 30
2015-12-25	3	2nd	5 8 9 12 22 39 45
2015-12-04	1	1st	8 15 24 25 27 36 43
2015-11-27	7	2nd	4 8 9 20 23 45 46
2015-10-09	5	1st	8 11 14 23 26 42 47
2015-09-04	21	2nd	7 8 15 19 36 37 41
2015-04-10	4	2nd	7 8 16 18 24 25 46
2015-03-13	1	2nd	2 8 10 15 17 20 24
2015-03-06	9	2nd	2 8 9 10 24 26 41
2015-01-02	8	1st	8 9 14 19 28 31 46
2014-11-07	2	4th	1 3 6 8 14 20 30
2014-10-24	5	1st	8 27 30 32 34 35 42
2014-09-19	1	3rd	4 7 8 10 16 20 36
2014-09-12	1	3rd	5 6 8 13 24 37 46
2014-09-05	23	2nd	3 8 11 20 28 36 38
2014-03-28	6	1st	8 15 16 21 31 37 39
2014-02-14	14	2nd	6 8 11 16 17 19 24
2013-11-08	4	2nd	7 8 10 15 24 26 41
2013-10-11	21	2nd	7 8 9 16 21 28 48
2013-05-17	4	1st	8 18 21 27 33 46 49
2013-04-19	3	3rd	2 3 8 20 28 31 34
2013-03-29	7	1st	8 11 12 13 22 33 47
2013-02-08	3	2nd	3 8 13 30 38 45 47
2013-01-18	4	1st	8 16 17 28 32 34 47
2012-12-21	4	2nd	7 8 17 18 20 40 41
2012-11-23	2	2nd	6 8 10 17 28 29 38
2012-11-09	7	1st	8 9 11 22 24 42 46
2012-09-21	14	2nd	7 8 10 11 19 34 45
2012-06-15	19	1st	8 11 20 28 36 43 47
2012-02-03	1	2nd	2 8 12 14 33 37 47
2012-01-27	3	1st	8 24 28 34 37 43 45
2012-01-06	6	3rd	1 2 8 13 22 45 46
2011-11-25	1	1st	8 10 15 24 30 35 49
2011-11-18	2	1st	8 17 27 28 39 44 49
2011-11-04	6	2nd	5 8 13 15 27 28 37
2011-09-23	2	1st	8 16 24 27 30 38 40
2011-09-09	1	2nd	6 8 15 20 30 32 42
2011-09-02	7	3rd	2 3 8 13 18 20 23
2011-07-15	5	3rd	3 7 8 12 18 24 41
2011-06-10	1	1st	8 11 12 25 28 30 33
2011-06-03	3	1st	8 21 28 32 33 34 48
2011-05-13	20	2nd	7 8 14 32 38 42 44
2010-12-24	11	1st	8 23 25 26 33 41 43
2010-10-08	7	4th	3 4 5 8 13 22 33
2010-08-20	17	4th	4 5 7 8 18 30 35
2010-04-23	7	1st	8 11 16 21 24 28 41
2010-03-05	8	2nd	5 8 18 22 32 39 45
2010-01-08	2	1st	8 17 21 23 24 28 39
2009-12-25	1	1st	8 9 12 13 29 30 31
2009-12-18	4	1st	8 10 15 17 33 34 35
2009-11-20	1	2nd	2 8 28 30 36 39 42
2009-11-13	1	1st	8 18 27 28 38 41 48
2009-11-06	5	3rd	2 7 8 11 16 17 18
2009-10-02	—	1st	8 27 28 29 31 32 35