Number 16

In Texas Two Step under the 4/35 + 1/35 · since Sep 2025 rules — 110 draws, 4 from 1–35.

12times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.17σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

8.4average wait between appearances · chance says 8.8

28longest completed wait · 35% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 110 draws against 12.6 expected, −0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 110 draws · average wait 8.4 draws · longest completed wait 28 · waiting 14 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 smallest0 · chance 1.9
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.1
3rd smallest3 · chance 4.0
4th smallest3 · chance 0.9

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 13 27 4 5 6

Never drawn alongside 12 of the other 34 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 35. 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	2	3rd	1 13 16 32
2026-08-17	7	2nd	7 16 21 22
2026-07-23	4	4th	4 8 10 16
2026-07-09	28	4th	5 6 10 16
2026-04-02	12

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 4/35 tonight whatever it did last week.