Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool, tied with 1 other number.
September 25, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 16 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Mega Ball field of 1 through 24, from April 8, 2025 through November 10, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 167 drawings it appeared 11 times. That is 4.0 appearances above the even-split count of 7.0. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 24 is 7.0. Mega Ball 16 ranks 2nd, tied with 1 other number.
The last appearance was September 25, 2026, which is 13 drawings ago. That gap ranks 15th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 30 drawings, after August 15, 2025 and before it returned on December 2, 2025.
The appearance before the latest one was September 15, 2026, 3 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 14.5 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
This set does not contain a complete calendar year, so a busiest-year label would overread a partial season. The raw yearly counts are 4 appearances in 2025 and 7 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 8 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 2 times. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was September 25, 2026: white balls 25, 57, 58, 67, 68, and Mega Ball 16.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 16 were white ball 58 (4 times), white ball 17 (3 times), and white ball 27 (3 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 15 (2 appearances) and Mega Ball 17 (9 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,556 drawings and records 58 appearances of Mega Ball 16. The earliest of them is August 19, 2003. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 13 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Ball has a 1-in-24 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- September 25, 2026: white balls 25, 57, 58, 67, 68, and Mega Ball 16
- September 15, 2026: white balls 27, 36, 43, 57, 58, and Mega Ball 16
- July 3, 2026: white balls 5, 9, 29, 47, 57, and Mega Ball 16
- May 8, 2026: white balls 37, 47, 49, 51, 58, and Mega Ball 16
- March 27, 2026: white balls 13, 27, 28, 41, 62, and Mega Ball 16
- March 3, 2026: white balls 7, 21, 53, 54, 62, and Mega Ball 16
- January 9, 2026: white balls 12, 30, 36, 42, 47, and Mega Ball 16
- December 2, 2025: white balls 17, 25, 26, 53, 60, and Mega Ball 16
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 15
- Mega Ball 17
- Mega Millions white ball 58
- Mega Millions white ball 17