Number 8

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–45.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.13σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 75% for any number

7.4average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

26longest completed wait · 33% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws against 14.5 expected, +0.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws · average wait 7.4 draws · longest completed wait 26 · waiting 3 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 smallest4 · chance 6.0
2nd smallest3 · chance 6.4
3rd smallest8 · chance 2.3
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

5 9 1 2 7 11

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 8 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 45. 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
2026-10-04	7	1st	8 12 23 24 31 33
2026-08-16	12	1st	8 13 18 24 26 40
2026-05-24	5	2nd	5 8 10 17 22 38

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.