Mega Millions · White ball profile
White ball 8 history and statistics
How number 8 has appeared across 937 Mega Millions drawings since the October 2017 format change.
What the numbers mean
Across 937 drawings, White ball 8 appeared 74 times. A perfectly fair draw would produce about 66.9 appearances, so this number is running 10.6% more than expected. That is well inside normal random variation for a dataset this size. On average that is 8.3 appearances per year.
Each drawing is independent. Nothing on this page changes the odds of White ball 8 being drawn next time—those odds are 5 in 70 every single draw, regardless of history.
Recent performance
Number 8 by drawing range
Appearance history
Most recent appearances
Draw alerts
The numbers, as soon as they are drawn.
Winning numbers after each drawing, or a weekly summary of how the statistics moved. No picks, no predictions, no hype.
Every valid Mega Millions combination has the same mathematical probability in the next independent drawing.