Number 16

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

15times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.16σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 86% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

14longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, +0.16σ. 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 15 times in 101 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 14 · 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 smallest2 · chance 1.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.5
3rd smallest4 · chance 5.5
4th smallest4 · chance 3.0
5th smallest1 · chance 0.7
6th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

21 36 39 1 9 13

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 42. 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
2026-10-10	9	3rd	7 9 16 21 36 39
2026-09-09	5	1st	16 23 30 36 38 39
2026-08-22	4	4th	8 11 15 16 38 41
2026-08-08	1	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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.