Number 8

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

12times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.69σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

34longest completed wait · 7% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, −0.69σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 101 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 1 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 smallest5 · chance 4.5
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.2
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.0
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 1.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

23 1 11 24 25 34

Never drawn alongside 8 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 42. 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
2026-10-14	11	2nd	1 8 11 12 19 39
2026-09-05	4	3rd	3 7 8 20 21 34
2026-08-22	5	1st	8 11 15 16 38 41
2026-08-05	1	2nd

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.