Number 8

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · May 2016 – Nov 2018 rules — 897 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

104times drawn · chance expected 109 −0.55σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

8.6average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

40longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 104 times in 897 draws against 109.4 expected, −0.55σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 104 times in 897 draws · average wait 8.6 draws · longest completed wait 40 · waiting 5 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 smallest48 · chance 46.6
2nd smallest38 · chance 43.5
3rd smallest16 · chance 12.6
4th smallest2 · chance 1.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 25 21 27 5 31

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 40 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 41. 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
2018-10-29	1	1st	8 17 21 35 38
2018-10-28	9	2nd	1 8 13 22 37
2018-10-19	25	3rd	3 7 8 17 21
2018-09-24	3	2nd	1 8 21

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 5/41 tonight whatever it did last week.

2018-04-22	7	2nd	3 8 23 26 33
2018-04-15	3	1st	8 14 19 25 28
2018-04-12	12	1st	8 11 16 24 36
2018-03-31	8	2nd	3 8 9 28 37
2018-03-23	29	1st	8 17 25 26 31
2018-02-22	1	1st	8 20 25 27 39
2018-02-21	9	3rd	3 7 8 19 25
2018-02-12	7	3rd	4 5 8 24 35
2018-02-05	2	1st	8 11 33 35 37
2018-02-03	15	1st	8 11 23 26 37
2018-01-19	11	1st	8 14 17 31 32
2018-01-08	10	1st	8 10 20 27 31
2017-12-29	5	1st	8 13 17 22 28
2017-12-24	12	2nd	7 8 17 23 29
2017-12-12	2	2nd	1 8 26 27 41
2017-12-10	5	3rd	1 6 8 13 27
2017-12-05	2	1st	8 10 17 21 22
2017-12-03	7	4th	2 4 6 8 32
2017-11-26	16	2nd	3 8 17 36 40
2017-11-10	16	2nd	5 8 17 24 31
2017-10-25	2	1st	8 10 16 19 38
2017-10-23	2	3rd	3 4 8 10 31
2017-10-20	12	1st	8 16 24 28 39
2017-10-08	4	2nd	2 8 20 30 41
2017-10-04	2	2nd	1 8 21 32 36
2017-10-02	5	2nd	2 8 13 16 18
2017-09-26	7	2nd	5 8 11 20 30
2017-09-19	3	1st	8 19 24 31 36
2017-09-16	13	2nd	5 8 11 18 31
2017-09-03	11	1st	8 22 27 35 39
2017-08-23	5	2nd	7 8 25 29 36
2017-08-18	1	1st	8 21 23 32 35
2017-08-17	9	2nd	2 8 14 27 30
2017-08-08	4	1st	8 23 30 34 35
2017-08-04	16	1st	8 11 35 38 39
2017-07-19	14	2nd	2 8 16 17 19
2017-07-05	4	2nd	6 8 13 28 39
2017-07-01	4	2nd	2 8 9 33 37
2017-06-27	29	2nd	1 8 21 33 38
2017-05-29	4	2nd	4 8 24 26 33
2017-05-25	19	1st	8 10 27 28 29
2017-05-06	11	3rd	1 5 8 17 27
2017-04-25	3	1st	8 9 11 15 25
2017-04-22	10	2nd	3 8 16 22 34
2017-04-12	6	4th	4 6 7 8 25
2017-04-05	1	3rd	1 3 8 25 34
2017-04-03	5	1st	8 18 19 27 32
2017-03-29	2	1st	8 15 29 39 40
2017-03-27	3	1st	8 12 22 23 28
2017-03-24	1	2nd	5 8 25 31 39
2017-03-23	10	2nd	5 8 16 32 33
2017-03-13	2	1st	8 9 25 28 33
2017-03-11	3	2nd	4 8 9 11 27
2017-03-08	8	1st	8 11 27 34 41
2017-02-28	9	3rd	4 5 8 23 33
2017-02-19	4	1st	8 22 23 29 37
2017-02-15	19	2nd	5 8 12 13 34
2017-01-27	3	2nd	6 8 32 33 40
2017-01-24	8	1st	8 13 17 20 36
2017-01-16	40	3rd	5 6 8 37 40
2016-12-07	29	1st	8 11 12 29 40
2016-11-08	5	1st	8 21 23 25 32
2016-11-03	11	2nd	3 8 21 30 35
2016-10-23	19	1st	8 23 26 29 38
2016-10-04	29	2nd	5 8 17 29 41
2016-09-05	6	1st	8 19 20 28 30
2016-08-30	6	1st	8 22 25 27 33
2016-08-24	3	1st	8 9 10 25 30
2016-08-21	15	2nd	7 8 21 40 41
2016-08-06	10	1st	8 12 27 33 34
2016-07-27	3	2nd	4 8 11 22 25
2016-07-24	5	2nd	6 8 9 19 35
2016-07-19	7	1st	8 19 25 30 34
2016-07-12	13	3rd	4 6 8 26 40
2016-06-29	6	1st	8 9 14 25 31
2016-06-23	9	1st	8 17 22 35 38
2016-06-14	3	1st	8 17 19 30 33
2016-06-11	4	3rd	4 6 8 17 29
2016-06-07	17	2nd	3 8 9 21 26
2016-05-21	—	3rd	3 7 8 17 24