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Star 16 In Powerball under the 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 rules — 1,420 draws, 1 from 1–26.
Main numbers Stars 5/69 + 1/26 · since Oct 2015 5/59 + 1/35 · Jan 2012 – Oct 2015 5/59 + 1/39 · Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 5/55 + 1/42 · Aug 2005 – Jan 2009 5/53 + 1/42 · Oct 2002 – Aug 2005 5/49 + 1/42 · Nov 1997 – Oct 2002 5/45 + 1/45 · Apr 1992 – Nov 1997 40 times drawn · chance expected 55 −2.02σ
39 draws waiting · a wait this long: 23% for any number
33.0 average wait between appearances · chance says 26.0
136 longest completed wait · 18% chance of one at least that long
16 is drawn as often as chance explains Drawn 40 times in 1,420 draws against 54.6 expected, −2.02σ. Each draw is independent: after 39 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.
16 Number 16, draw by draw Drawn 40 times in 1,420 draws · average wait 33.0 draws · longest completed wait 136 · waiting 39 draws now
14 draws: 2016-08-24 to 2016-10-12 13 draws: 2016-10-12 to 2016-11-26 31 draws: 2016-11-26 to 2017-03-15 3 draws: 2017-03-15 to 2017-03-25 28 draws: 2017-03-25 to 2017-07-01 43 draws: 2017-07-01 to 2017-11-29 26 draws: 2017-11-29 to 2018-02-28 48 draws: 2018-02-28 to 2018-08-15 1 draws: 2018-08-15 to 2018-08-18 35 draws: 2018-08-18 to 2018-12-19 132 draws: 2018-12-19 to 2020-03-25 2 draws: 2020-03-25 to 2020-04-01 15 draws: 2020-04-01 to 2020-05-23 81 draws: 2020-05-23 to 2021-03-03 10 draws: 2021-03-03 to 2021-04-07 14 draws: 2021-04-07 to 2021-05-26 22 draws: 2021-05-26 to 2021-08-11 70 draws: 2021-08-11 to 2022-01-24 1 draws: 2022-01-24 to 2022-01-26 9 draws: 2022-01-26 to 2022-02-16 14 draws: 2022-02-16 to 2022-03-21 32 draws: 2022-03-21 to 2022-06-04 10 draws: 2022-06-04 to 2022-06-27 15 draws: 2022-06-27 to 2022-08-01 36 draws: 2022-08-01 to 2022-10-24 56 draws: 2022-10-24 to 2023-03-04 73 draws: 2023-03-04 to 2023-08-21 52 draws: 2023-08-21 to 2023-12-20 29 draws: 2023-12-20 to 2024-02-26 5 draws: 2024-02-26 to 2024-03-09 4 draws: 2024-03-09 to 2024-03-18 33 draws: 2024-03-18 to 2024-06-03 24 draws: 2024-06-03 to 2024-07-29 20 draws: 2024-07-29 to 2024-09-14 24 draws: 2024-09-14 to 2024-11-09 3 draws: 2024-11-09 to 2024-11-16 136 draws: 2024-11-16 to 2025-09-29 32 draws: 2025-09-29 to 2025-12-13 92 draws: 2025-12-13 to 2026-07-15 Still waiting — at least 39 draws since 2026-07-15 2016-08-24 2016-10-12 2016-11-26 2017-03-15 2017-03-25 2017-07-01 2017-11-29 2018-02-28 2018-08-15 2018-08-18 2018-12-19 2020-03-25 2020-04-01 2020-05-23 2021-03-03 2021-04-07 2021-05-26 2021-08-11 2022-01-24 2022-01-26 2022-02-16 2022-03-21 2022-06-04 2022-06-27 2022-08-01 2022-10-24 2023-03-04 2023-08-21 2023-12-20 2024-02-26 2024-03-09 2024-03-18 2024-06-03 2024-07-29 2024-09-14 2024-11-09 2024-11-16 2025-09-29 2025-12-13 2026-07-15 2015-10-07 2026-10-14
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1st smallest 40 · chance 40.0 Every position’s lane →
The company it keeps No shared draws yet.
Never drawn alongside 25 of the other 25 numbers; chance expects about 25 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 — 14th most popular of 26. 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 ← star 15 Every number star 17 → 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 1/26 tonight whatever it did last week.