Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 3 other numbers.
October 9, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 8 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Mega Ball field of 1 through 24, from April 8, 2025 through November 10, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 167 drawings it appeared 7 times. That is within 5 percent of the even-split count of 7.0. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 24 is 7.0. Mega Ball 8 ranks 10th, tied with 3 other numbers.
The last appearance was October 9, 2026, which is 9 drawings ago. That gap ranks 18th longest in the pool. The longest miss was at the beginning: 47 drawings passed from April 8, 2025 until the first appearance on September 19, 2025.
The appearance before the latest one was September 22, 2026, 5 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 18.3 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
This set does not contain a complete calendar year, so a busiest-year label would overread a partial season. The raw yearly counts are 3 appearances in 2025 and 4 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 5 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 2 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was October 9, 2026: white balls 2, 7, 16, 63, 70, and Mega Ball 8.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 8 were white ball 2 (2 times), white ball 3 (2 times), and white ball 7 (2 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 7 (9 appearances) and Mega Ball 9 (6 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,556 drawings and records 81 appearances of Mega Ball 8. The earliest of them is September 20, 2002. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 9 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Ball has a 1-in-24 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- October 9, 2026: white balls 2, 7, 16, 63, 70, and Mega Ball 8
- September 22, 2026: white balls 7, 13, 26, 37, 68, and Mega Ball 8
- May 22, 2026: white balls 3, 22, 34, 54, 61, and Mega Ball 8
- April 17, 2026: white balls 38, 43, 44, 49, 62, and Mega Ball 8
- December 5, 2025: white balls 34, 38, 42, 44, 69, and Mega Ball 8
- October 10, 2025: white balls 3, 18, 23, 32, 56, and Mega Ball 8
- September 19, 2025: white balls 2, 22, 27, 42, 58, and Mega Ball 8
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 7
- Mega Ball 9
- Mega Millions white ball 2
- Mega Millions white ball 3