Number 16

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

13times drawn · chance expected 13 −0.13σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 22% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

24longest completed wait · 32% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 13 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, −0.13σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 13 times in 96 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 24 · waiting 11 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 1.3
2nd smallest3 · chance 3.9
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.5
4th smallest4 · chance 2.5
5th smallest1 · chance 0.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

42 9 30 1 10 17

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 10 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 50. 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
2026-03-13	3	4th	1 3 13 16 25 26 42
2026-03-03	4	3rd	5 15 16 19 29 42 49
2026-02-17	1	4th	9 11 12 16 29

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.