Number 8

In Cash 5 under the 5/41 · Oct 2020 – Oct 2023 rules — 720 draws, 5 from 1–41 (an earlier era).

96times drawn · chance expected 88 +0.93σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

66longest completed wait · 2% chance of one at least that long

8 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 96 times in 720 draws against 87.8 expected, +0.93σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 8, draw by draw

Drawn 96 times in 720 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 66 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest37 · chance 43.0
2nd smallest40 · chance 40.1
3rd smallest16 · chance 11.6
4th smallest3 · chance 1.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 24 5 34 2 21

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
2023-10-17	4	2nd	6 8 14 37 39
2023-10-13	3	1st	8 11 29 30 33
2023-10-10	1	1st	8 9 29 40 41
2023-10-09	2	2nd	5 8 20

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.

2023-06-11	13	1st	8 14 21 31 37
2023-05-29	1	1st	8 11 26 34 37
2023-05-28	1	1st	8 11 18 28 35
2023-05-27	8	2nd	7 8 21 31 38
2023-05-19	19	2nd	4 8 10 24 31
2023-04-30	25	2nd	6 8 14 21 34
2023-04-05	4	3rd	6 7 8 24 29
2023-04-01	7	2nd	2 8 9 20 22
2023-03-25	1	2nd	7 8 19 35 36
2023-03-24	1	2nd	6 8 11 13 23
2023-03-23	8	4th	3 5 6 8 28
2023-03-15	25	2nd	7 8 12 13 19
2023-02-18	4	2nd	6 8 27 35 38
2023-02-14	3	3rd	5 6 8 18 34
2023-02-11	9	1st	8 11 16 24 32
2023-02-02	1	2nd	3 8 17 20 21
2023-02-01	10	1st	8 23 24 29 32
2023-01-22	6	3rd	2 5 8 16 29
2023-01-16	5	2nd	7 8 10 17 38
2023-01-11	6	1st	8 20 22 32 36
2023-01-05	2	4th	2 5 6 8 22
2023-01-03	10	1st	8 15 17 25 34
2021-12-24	6	2nd	2 8 20 26 39
2021-12-18	8	3rd	1 4 8 22 24
2021-12-10	18	1st	8 20 25 35 40
2021-11-22	9	2nd	6 8 10 37 40
2021-11-13	1	3rd	1 5 8 21 33
2021-11-12	16	1st	8 24 25 35 40
2021-10-27	1	2nd	7 8 14 27 34
2021-10-26	21	2nd	3 8 16 21 35
2021-10-05	4	1st	8 10 17 25 36
2021-10-01	23	3rd	1 7 8 17 24
2021-09-08	2	1st	8 15 28 36 38
2021-09-06	4	1st	8 9 30 33 38
2021-09-02	3	1st	8 9 20 36 41
2021-08-30	9	2nd	5 8 22 31 34
2021-08-21	5	2nd	5 8 10 23 32
2021-08-16	3	1st	8 14 15 36 37
2021-08-13	3	2nd	2 8 18 26 38
2021-08-10	6	2nd	7 8 15 18 26
2021-08-04	2	3rd	1 3 8 21 38
2021-08-02	3	2nd	5 8 24 34 41
2021-07-30	5	2nd	2 8 25 27 34
2021-07-25	1	2nd	1 8 12 34 38
2021-07-24	15	3rd	1 3 8 9 32
2021-07-09	5	1st	8 9 24 35 39
2021-07-04	3	3rd	1 4 8 11 18
2021-07-01	6	1st	8 12 20 24 32
2021-06-25	7	3rd	5 6 8 14 29
2021-06-18	6	2nd	6 8 15 18 38
2021-06-12	7	1st	8 11 23 24 30
2021-06-05	1	2nd	3 8 11 32 35
2021-06-04	15	1st	8 18 19 28 40
2021-05-20	3	1st	8 10 18 21 39
2021-05-17	10	2nd	5 8 15 16 23
2021-05-07	8	2nd	6 8 12 21 32
2021-04-29	1	1st	8 23 30 40 41
2021-04-28	5	2nd	4 8 12 24 27
2021-04-23	4	2nd	2 8 30 32 39
2021-04-19	11	1st	8 19 21 40 41
2021-04-08	66	2nd	2 8 26 27 31
2021-02-01	1	2nd	2 8 24 30 39
2021-01-31	9	2nd	1 8 12 31 34
2021-01-22	2	1st	8 17 23 25 37
2021-01-20	3	1st	8 25 31 33 41
2021-01-17	24	3rd	3 5 8 14 17
2020-12-24	11	1st	8 9 27 29 41
2020-12-13	10	1st	8 21 24 27 30
2020-12-03	7	2nd	4 8 15 20 34
2020-11-26	6	1st	8 15 23 25 39
2020-11-20	20	2nd	6 8 11 25 26
2020-10-31	—	1st	8 12 19 28 37