Number 16

In MillionDay Day under the 5/55 · since Sep 2024 rules — 727 draws, 5 from 1–55.

77times drawn · chance expected 66 +1.41σ

5draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

9.4average wait between appearances · chance says 11.0

70longest completed wait · 10% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 77 times in 727 draws against 66.1 expected, +1.41σ. Each draw is independent: after 5 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 77 times in 727 draws · average wait 9.4 draws · longest completed wait 70 · 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 smallest19 · chance 20.0
2nd smallest34 · chance 33.4
3rd smallest18 · chance 18.9
4th smallest5 · chance 4.3
5th smallest1 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 5.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 40 8 11 35 12

Never drawn alongside 1 of the other 54 numbers; chance expects about 0.2 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 55. 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
2026-10-07	5	1st	16 21 33 43 53
2026-10-02	10	3rd	5 14 16 32 50
2026-09-22	9	2nd	14 16 20 31 32
2026-09-13	2	1st	16 25 33

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 5/55 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-12-14	1	5th	1 12 14 15 16
2025-12-13	4	3rd	8 15 16 35 40
2025-12-09	8	2nd	2 16 36 39 45
2025-12-01	3	2nd	6 16 44 45 51
2025-11-28	1	2nd	1 16 28 38 47
2025-11-27	13	2nd	12 16 22 26 50
2025-11-05	2	1st	16 27 33 43 46
2025-11-03	2	2nd	14 16 31 37 40
2025-11-01	1	2nd	1 16 25 31 44
2025-10-31	15	1st	16 35 38 41 46
2025-10-15	5	1st	16 24 31 39 47
2025-10-08	4	2nd	4 16 17 36 39
2025-10-04	15	2nd	8 16 24 35 51
2025-09-19	6	1st	16 24 29 32 35
2025-09-13	6	3rd	6 11 16 41 43
2025-09-07	16	2nd	14 16 29 36 46
2025-08-22	18	1st	16 21 43 44 48
2025-08-04	4	3rd	7 10 16 33 54
2025-07-31	1	2nd	7 16 39 40 53
2025-07-30	8	3rd	1 12 16 19 25
2025-07-22	1	2nd	8 16 23 36 43
2025-07-21	2	3rd	10 12 16 31 54
2025-07-19	14	2nd	12 16 23 24 50
2025-07-05	4	2nd	7 16 33 39 55
2025-07-01	8	3rd	8 10 16 19 46
2025-06-23	26	2nd	15 16 20 38 52
2025-05-28	2	2nd	12 16 27 35 40
2025-05-26	10	4th	2 13 14 16 25
2025-05-16	3	3rd	8 9 16 25 33
2025-05-13	3	2nd	9 16 17 33 47
2025-05-10	8	1st	16 17 24 47 53
2025-05-02	20	1st	16 19 22 40 47
2025-04-12	5	3rd	8 11 16 22 51
2025-04-07	20	1st	16 20 23 26 37
2025-03-18	4	3rd	14 15 16 35 52
2025-03-14	14	2nd	11 16 31 37 40
2025-02-28	11	2nd	7 16 34 43 49
2025-02-17	21	4th	5 8 11 16 24
2025-01-27	8	3rd	6 11 16 25 26
2025-01-19	5	2nd	5 16 22 52 53
2025-01-14	8	4th	8 10 13 16 30
2025-01-06	3	2nd	4 16 31 43 51
2025-01-03	6	1st	16 19 26 34 39
2024-12-28	5	3rd	9 15 16 40 45
2024-12-23	7	2nd	11 16 25 37 48
2024-12-16	24	2nd	8 16 27 30 31
2024-11-22	4	1st	16 28 30 41 53
2024-11-18	10	2nd	15 16 27 35 39
2024-11-08	9	1st	16 35 37 40 52
2024-10-30	10	3rd	6 11 16 20 23
2024-10-20	13	1st	16 21 34 48 53
2024-10-07	3	4th	6 10 12 16 40
2024-10-04	—	3rd	7 9 16 23 54