Number 8

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

8times drawn · chance expected 13 −1.60σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

13.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

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

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −1.60σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 96 draws · average wait 13.3 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 2 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 smallest3 · chance 3.0
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.4
3rd smallest1 · chance 1.3
4th smallest1 · chance 0.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
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 1.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 46 7 15 18 20

Never drawn alongside 16 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 18 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 50. 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
2026-04-14	14	1st	8 14 15 17 27 30 46
2026-02-24	23	2nd	1 8 15 18 23 27 35
2025-12-05	4	3rd	1 7 8 11 25

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.