Number 16

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

9times drawn · chance expected 11 −0.66σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

13.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

34longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, −0.66σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 107 draws · average wait 13.1 draws · longest completed wait 34 · waiting 1 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 smallest2 · chance 1.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.6
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.6
4th smallest1 · chance 0.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

22 9 10 20 23 29

Never drawn alongside 22 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 26 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 58. 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	34	3rd	9 10 16 23 29 33
2026-06-10	1	2nd	15 16 17 18 25 33
2026-06-06	22	2nd	8 16 20 40 50 51
2026-03-21	10	3rd	3 7

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.