Number 16

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 111 draws, 6 from 1–49.

13times drawn · chance expected 14 −0.17σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 68% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

13longest completed wait · 94% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 111 draws against 13.6 expected, −0.17σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 2 times, counted separately.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 111 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 4 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 smallest3 · chance 4.7
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.3
4th smallest3 · chance 1.8
5th smallest0 · chance 0.3
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

3 17 35 12 28 33

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 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 49. 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	5	2nd	1 16 33 35 37 40
2026-09-19	4	1st	16 17 31 35 40 45
2026-09-05	13	3rd	3 4 16 21 23 26
2026-07-22	4	2nd

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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.