In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.
20times drawn · chance expected 14 +1.63σ
2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number
5.3average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5
11longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long
16 is drawn as often as chance explains
Drawn 20 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +1.63σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.
16
Number 16, draw by draw
Drawn 20 times in 107 draws · average wait 5.3 draws · longest completed wait 11 · waiting 2 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.
Never drawn alongside 3 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 5 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 45. That changes nothing about whether it comes up, and everything about how many ways a jackpot on it would be shared.
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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.