Number 16

In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 113 draws, 5 from 1–90.

8times drawn · chance expected 6 +0.71σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 56% for any number

11.7average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

25longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 8 times in 113 draws against 6.3 expected, +0.71σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 8 times in 113 draws · average wait 11.7 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 11 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 smallest5 · chance 3.8
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.2
3rd smallest0 · chance 0.9
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

15 52 60 71 75 9

Never drawn alongside 62 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 62 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 90. 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
2026-09-15	13	1st	16 18 45 60 75
2026-08-18	25	2nd	9 16 42 52 60
2026-07-03	8	2nd	15 16 23 31 71
2026-06-19	23	2nd	15 16 51 75 89

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 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.