Number 16

In Wild Money under the 5/38 + 1/38 · since Apr 2025 rules — 539 draws, 5 from 1–38.

79times drawn · chance expected 71 +1.03σ

7draws waiting · a wait this long: 43% for any number

6.6average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

35longest completed wait · 48% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 79 times in 539 draws against 70.9 expected, +1.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 7 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 16 times, counted separately.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 79 times in 539 draws · average wait 6.6 draws · longest completed wait 35 · waiting 7 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 smallest8 · chance 8.7
2nd smallest27 · chance 27.6
3rd smallest29 · chance 29.0
4th smallest12 · chance 12.0
5th smallest3 · chance 1.6

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 8.5 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 18 15 27 11 12

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 still unmet 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 38. 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
2026-10-04	35	3rd	2 11 16 18 22
2026-08-30	8	3rd	6 15 16 18 19
2026-08-22	1	2nd	13 16 18 31 33
2026-08-21	1	4th	6 8 9

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-14	9	5th	1 10 12 14 16
2026-04-05	14	1st	16 22 23 25 35
2026-03-22	5	2nd	2 16 24 26 33
2026-03-17	3	4th	7 12 15 16 33
2026-03-14	4	2nd	6 16 22 26 36
2026-03-10	1	3rd	11 12 16 27 34
2026-03-09	3	3rd	2 14 16 34 35
2026-03-06	3	3rd	2 8 16 26 32
2026-03-03	3	2nd	7 16 18 28 38
2026-02-28	4	4th	3 9 12 16 32
2026-02-24	8	2nd	4 16 17 27 29
2026-02-16	1	3rd	7 11 16 22 31
2026-02-15	11	3rd	1 14 16 33 34
2026-02-04	1	2nd	10 16 18 37 38
2026-02-03	1	2nd	2 16 17 26 29
2026-02-02	2	2nd	15 16 24 27 31
2026-01-31	1	2nd	8 16 31 35 36
2026-01-30	1	4th	1 7 15 16 21
2026-01-29	3	3rd	1 3 16 18 22
2026-01-26	1	2nd	1 16 27 29 32
2026-01-25	3	3rd	11 12 16 20 38
2026-01-22	4	2nd	5 16 22 35 37
2026-01-18	3	3rd	4 9 16 27 28
2026-01-15	6	1st	16 23 24 29 33
2026-01-09	6	3rd	1 7 16 26 36
2026-01-03	22	2nd	12 16 20 21 34
2025-12-12	10	4th	3 11 14 16 18
2025-12-02	2	3rd	8 9 16 20 23
2025-11-30	2	3rd	9 13 16 23 27
2025-11-28	2	1st	16 25 28 30 34
2025-11-26	15	3rd	4 5 16 25 31
2025-11-11	8	3rd	13 15 16 18 34
2025-11-03	4	3rd	9 15 16 19 29
2025-10-30	19	4th	2 5 8 16 38
2025-10-11	9	2nd	11 16 22 28 31
2025-10-02	5	2nd	11 16 18 26 32
2025-09-27	2	3rd	11 13 16 17 33
2025-09-25	24	2nd	12 16 22 26 27
2025-09-01	2	1st	16 22 23 27 30
2025-08-30	1	3rd	11 13 16 21 38
2025-08-29	12	3rd	7 11 16 24 34
2025-08-17	7	1st	16 18 22 24 35
2025-08-10	12	3rd	8 10 16 18 30
2025-07-29	25	2nd	8 16 27 30 38
2025-07-04	2	4th	9 13 14 16 23
2025-07-02	1	2nd	9 16 18 30 36
2025-07-01	4	2nd	12 16 19 23 28
2025-06-27	6	5th	1 3 14 15 16
2025-06-21	19	4th	6 9 10 16 29
2025-06-02	7	2nd	13 16 30 36 38
2025-05-26	6	3rd	3 7 16 35 36
2025-05-20	5	3rd	3 4 16 23 26
2025-05-15	9	4th	5 8 15 16 22
2025-05-06	1	2nd	12 16 24 31 37
2025-05-05	—	2nd	5 16 19 22 35