Number 16

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 4 from 1–45.

9times drawn · chance expected 10 −0.20σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 91% for any number

12.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

39longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 108 draws against 9.6 expected, −0.20σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 108 draws · average wait 12.6 draws · longest completed wait 39 · waiting 2 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 smallest6 · chance 2.5
2nd smallest1 · chance 4.1
3rd smallest2 · chance 2.1
4th smallest0 · chance 0.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

36 17 43 44 2 3

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 24 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 45. 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
2026-10-03	6	3rd	5 10 16 23
2026-08-22	4	3rd	2 7 16 36
2026-07-25	39	1st	16 17 34 39
2025-10-25	7	2nd	3 16 36 43

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.