Number 16

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 18 −1.20σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

10.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

41longest completed wait · 6% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −1.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 145 draws · average wait 10.3 draws · longest completed wait 41 · waiting 13 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 smallest3 · chance 1.8
2nd smallest5 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.3
4th smallest1 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 42 46 4 11 14

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 12 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
2026-08-26	4	3rd	3 14 16 20 36 46
2026-08-12	26	2nd	11 16 20 36 42 46
2026-05-13	2	2nd	4 16 22 32 42 47
2026-05-06	41	3rd

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.