Number 16

In Lotto Max under the 7/49 + 1/49 · Sep 2009 – May 2019 rules — 503 draws, 7 from 1–49 (an earlier era).

81times drawn · chance expected 72 +1.16σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.2average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

31longest completed wait · 55% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 81 times in 503 draws against 71.9 expected, +1.16σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 8 times, counted separately.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 81 times in 503 draws · average wait 6.2 draws · longest completed wait 31 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 smallest6 · chance 7.3
2nd smallest22 · chance 23.5
3rd smallest28 · chance 28.4
4th smallest19 · chance 16.4
5th smallest6 · chance 4.8
6th smallest0 · chance 0.7
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.1 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

24 1 17 30 39 47

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 48 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 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
2019-05-10	3	1st	16 17 31 34 36 39 41
2019-04-19	2	2nd	2 16 21 33 39 42 47
2019-04-05	4	3rd	1 2 16 21 23

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 7/49 tonight whatever it did last week.

2017-02-10	31	2nd	11 16 19 22 24 38 41
2016-07-08	3	3rd	1 8 16 25 30 42 48
2016-06-17	3	2nd	1 16 20 29 33 44 46
2016-05-27	1	3rd	1 14 16 20 26 32 34
2016-05-20	4	1st	16 17 19 22 31 47 49
2016-04-22	31	2nd	13 16 20 35 37 43 49
2015-09-18	12	2nd	13 16 17 21 35 40 46
2015-06-26	1	3rd	2 4 16 23 30 32 46
2015-06-19	2	4th	7 14 15 16 21 30 41
2015-06-05	3	4th	2 10 13 16 30 33 48
2015-05-15	5	1st	16 23 24 25 40 46 47
2015-04-10	3	3rd	7 8 16 18 24 25 46
2015-03-20	3	3rd	7 10 16 35 36 42 45
2015-02-27	12	3rd	4 12 16 27 37 39 44
2014-12-05	11	4th	10 14 15 16 42 45 48
2014-09-19	4	5th	4 7 8 10 16 20 36
2014-08-22	1	2nd	13 16 22 26 35 36 39
2014-08-15	1	2nd	9 16 17 27 32 38 47
2014-08-08	3	3rd	6 9 16 19 20 24 30
2014-07-18	1	3rd	1 3 16 33 34 40 42
2014-07-11	2	4th	1 6 10 16 18 21 31
2014-06-27	2	4th	4 6 7 16 18 40 46
2014-06-13	3	2nd	12 16 24 29 36 40 47
2014-05-23	1	3rd	3 11 16 24 31 39 43
2014-05-16	4	3rd	12 13 16 30 32 35 37
2014-04-18	3	2nd	9 16 24 30 39 40 45
2014-03-28	3	3rd	8 15 16 21 31 37 39
2014-03-07	2	4th	1 6 7 16 22 31 33
2014-02-21	1	3rd	1 10 16 23 29 35 39
2014-02-14	2	4th	6 8 11 16 17 19 24
2014-01-31	4	3rd	6 10 16 27 38 40 45
2014-01-03	3	2nd	7 16 31 35 39 44 48
2013-12-13	6	2nd	6 16 24 32 36 45 47
2013-11-01	1	3rd	11 12 16 22 30 32 49
2013-10-25	2	2nd	13 16 24 29 33 40 49
2013-10-11	1	4th	7 8 9 16 21 28 48
2013-10-04	3	2nd	12 16 19 20 28 34 42
2013-09-13	9	5th	2 6 12 15 16 22 49
2013-07-12	16	2nd	14 16 17 36 45 46 48
2013-03-22	1	3rd	7 12 16 19 21 24 47
2013-03-15	8	2nd	9 16 17 19 22 41 43
2013-01-18	2	2nd	8 16 17 28 32 34 47
2013-01-04	30	3rd	3 6 16 23 27 28 34
2012-06-08	7	3rd	9 10 16 24 26 44 48
2012-04-20	1	3rd	14 15 16 19 30 36 46
2012-04-13	29	5th	2 6 11 12 16 39 45
2011-09-23	14	2nd	8 16 24 27 30 38 40
2011-06-17	17	4th	2 7 14 16 22 27 47
2011-02-18	9	4th	3 7 12 16 20 42 48
2010-12-17	30	2nd	1 16 28 29 33 37 47
2010-05-21	3	2nd	14 16 30 35 36 45 49
2010-04-30	1	5th	1 3 4 5 16 32 33
2010-04-23	2	3rd	8 11 16 21 24 28 41
2010-04-09	2	2nd	11 16 29 30 31 33 42
2010-03-26	8	4th	3 11 12 16 34 36 37
2010-01-29	12	1st	16 17 22 24 40 41 47
2009-11-06	—	5th	2 7 8 11 16 17 18