Number 16

In Toto Auswahlwette under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

14times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.08σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

7.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

18longest completed wait · 70% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, −0.08σ. 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.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 14 times in 107 draws · average wait 7.6 draws · longest completed wait 18 · 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.

1st smallest0 · chance 1.5
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.6
3rd smallest6 · chance 4.9
4th smallest2 · chance 2.4
5th smallest2 · chance 0.5
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 20 3 4 11 12

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 9 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.

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
2026-09-27	2	2nd	11 16 19 29 31 39
2026-09-13	1	3rd	4 15 16 23 34 37
2026-09-06	16	3rd	14 15 16 20 30 36

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.