Number 16

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

8times drawn · chance expected 11 −1.04σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 59% for any number

11.7average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

27longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, −1.04σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 92 draws · average wait 11.7 draws · longest completed wait 27 · waiting 5 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 smallest1 · chance 1.1
2nd smallest2 · chance 2.9
3rd smallest4 · chance 2.7
4th smallest0 · chance 1.1
5th smallest1 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 10 19 41 46 2

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 21 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
2026-09-23	10	3rd	6 13 16 17 35 46
2026-08-19	10	2nd	2 16 29 34 38 49
2026-07-15	12	5th	6 9 10 13 16 32
2026-06-03	10	1st

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.