Checked the code. Now I know where the confusion came from:

I got 8 blinks. They looked short to me. My son most likely mistook
them for long ones. How would long blinks differ from short ones?

8 long blinks - code 80: EGR system malfunction.

8 short blinks - code 8: Top Dead Sensor position sensor.

As far as I understand this is a bad distributor. So the question
is: Could the bad distributor cause flooding conditions?

Second question is: if I am correct and this is a bad distributor, is
it possible to fix it or do I need a new/rebuilt one?

Thank you all,

Sam