Number 16

In Loto Cash under the 5/35 + 1/10 · Apr 2022 – Sep 2025 rules — 524 draws, 5 from 1–35 (an earlier era).

78times drawn · chance expected 75 +0.39σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

6.7average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

37longest completed wait · 26% chance of one at least that long

16 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws against 74.9 expected, +0.39σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 16, draw by draw

Drawn 78 times in 524 draws · average wait 6.7 draws · longest completed wait 37 · 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 smallest5 · chance 6.5
2nd smallest30 · chance 24.4
3rd smallest24 · chance 30.2
4th smallest17 · chance 14.5
5th smallest2 · chance 2.3

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 9.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 5 8 21 22 31

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 34 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 35. 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
2025-09-26	12	3rd	2 3 16 21 33
2025-08-29	2	2nd	8 16 18 21 27
2025-08-25	1	4th	5 11 12 16 31
2025-08-22	9	2nd	7 16

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 5/35 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-01-24	20	5th	1 4 9 10 16
2024-12-02	37	4th	4 9 15 16 21
2024-09-06	2	2nd	7 16 27 28 34
2024-09-02	8	2nd	3 16 17 29 31
2024-08-14	1	3rd	3 9 16 17 35
2024-08-12	7	4th	1 2 9 16 25
2024-07-26	9	3rd	4 9 16 22 23
2024-07-05	6	5th	5 11 12 13 16
2024-06-21	2	3rd	5 7 16 24 35
2024-06-17	7	2nd	5 16 18 23 24
2024-05-31	3	2nd	12 16 22 29 33
2024-05-24	3	1st	16 17 26 30 35
2024-05-17	13	3rd	10 13 16 21 27
2024-04-17	29	3rd	1 6 16 17 22
2024-02-07	11	4th	2 8 10 16 34
2024-01-12	1	1st	16 17 18 19 25
2024-01-10	4	3rd	5 6 16 27 35
2023-12-29	33	4th	1 12 14 16 19
2023-10-11	1	3rd	3 9 16 22 29
2023-10-09	6	2nd	5 16 19 22 31
2023-09-25	1	2nd	10 16 17 21 34
2023-09-22	3	3rd	5 12 16 22 32
2023-09-15	1	3rd	9 10 16 25 32
2023-09-13	11	2nd	8 16 25 30 34
2023-08-18	6	2nd	13 16 21 24 27
2023-08-04	17	2nd	2 16 23 29 34
2023-06-26	10	2nd	1 16 23 24 27
2023-06-02	6	3rd	4 6 16 22 34
2023-05-19	14	2nd	15 16 20 29 32
2023-04-17	3	4th	2 12 15 16 31
2023-04-10	6	3rd	8 11 16 30 35
2023-03-24	5	2nd	10 16 22 24 29
2023-03-13	13	2nd	14 16 20 32 35
2023-02-10	13	1st	16 17 20 22 30
2023-01-11	9	2nd	9 16 31 34 35
2022-12-14	3	3rd	8 11 16 27 28
2022-12-07	5	2nd	14 16 18 29 34
2022-11-25	2	4th	6 8 12 16 18
2022-11-21	7	4th	5 8 12 16 26
2022-11-04	1	2nd	13 16 26 31 35
2022-11-02	1	2nd	13 16 20 24 31
2022-10-31	2	3rd	9 15 16 18 31
2022-10-26	4	1st	16 21 26 28 35
2022-10-17	15	2nd	8 16 17 22 25
2022-09-12	3	2nd	15 16 25 29 34
2022-09-05	3	3rd	10 14 16 17 25
2022-08-29	1	4th	8 9 13 16 28
2022-08-26	18	2nd	4 16 17 26 32
2022-07-15	8	4th	2 8 9 16 20
2022-06-24	6	2nd	6 16 27 31 34
2022-06-10	8	4th	2 8 10 16 24
2022-05-23	1	4th	1 8 15 16 31
2022-05-20	4	2nd	15 16 18 21 35
2022-05-11	—	3rd	3 5 16 19 21