NY Lotto Workbench: Patterns from the September 16, 2026 Draw

Grab a coffee — this is the long-form NY Lotto breakdown. We chart the frequencies, measure the droughts and trace the sum curve across the last 50 draws.
The result
Official NY Lotto result for September 16, 2026.
And 56 finally woke up, ending a 25-draw drought. No cooling off for 14, which hit yet again.
Frequency map
First layer: appearance counts for the full number pool over the last 50 draws:
Current leaders: 15 (11×), 13 (9×), 31 (9×), 10 (8×), 14 (8×).
Shape of the draws
Zooming out, the recent draws share some clear structural tendencies:
Across the last 50 draws, the most common odd/even split was 4 odd out of 6 (seen in 28% of draws), with an average of 2.9 odd numbers per line. 3 of the numbers typically landed in the lower half (1–29). 42% of draws contained at least one consecutive pair, and 53% repeated at least one number from the draw before.
Appearances by play-slip section (rows of ten).
Appearances by last digit (·0 through ·9).
Sum trend
Now the trend curve. The chart below tracks the total of each drawn line over recent draws:
Line totals have averaged 178 over the window, ranging from 104 to 277; the middle half of results landed between 157 and 194. Over the most recent 20 draws the total has been holding steady (regression slope -0.3 per draw around an average of 178).
Gap report
Finally, the gap report — which numbers have been missing longest, and which just ended a drought:
33 currently leads the absence table at 40 draws without an appearance, followed by 39 (32), 44 (30), 55 (27). On the other side, a neighbor effect showed up in 69% of recent draws — a number one above or below a previous hit appearing next time out.
Two reference sets
As a closing exercise, here are two study sets for the September 19, 2026 drawing — treat them as illustrations of the data, nothing more:
Illustrative only — every combination has the same chance in a random drawing.
Charts update after every drawing. For pattern views and a set generator on your phone, try the free Lotto Forge app below.
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