Number 16

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.84σ

22draws waiting · a wait this long: 10% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

37longest completed wait · 22% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.84σ. Each draw is independent: after 22 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 159 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 22 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 16 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 smallest4 · chance 2.7
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.5
3rd smallest1 · chance 3.7
4th smallest3 · chance 1.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 1 14 24 31 32

Never drawn alongside 17 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 16 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 16 is picked about 1.22× as often as an indifferent choice — 15th most popular of 49. 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

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 16 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-07-27	5	2nd	6 16 18 32 42
2026-07-09	1	4th	7 8 14 16 24
2026-07-06	18	2nd	5 16 19 31 40
2026-05-04	3	2nd	1 16 21 32

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: 16 is drawn with probability 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.