Number 16

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–43.

17times drawn · chance expected 15 +0.54σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 16% for any number

5.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

19longest completed wait · 67% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 108 draws against 15.1 expected, +0.54σ. 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 17 times in 108 draws · average wait 5.2 draws · longest completed wait 19 · 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 smallest1 · chance 1.6
2nd smallest4 · chance 5.3
3rd smallest5 · chance 6.1
4th smallest7 · chance 3.2
5th smallest0 · chance 0.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 2.0 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 4 8 21 24 6

Never drawn alongside 5 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 6 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 43. 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
2026-08-24	7	2nd	8 16 21 22 34 41
2026-07-30	10	4th	7 11 14 16 21 32
2026-06-25	7	3rd	10 15 16 21 36 40
2026-06-01	4	4th

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.