Number 12

In Atlantic 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Sep 2025 rules — 108 draws, 6 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.81σ

13draws waiting · a wait this long: 21% for any number

6.0average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 68% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws against 13.2 expected, +0.81σ. Each draw is independent: after 13 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 4 times, counted separately.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 108 draws · average wait 6.0 draws · longest completed wait 21 · waiting 13 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 12 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 4.1
2nd smallest10 · chance 6.8
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.0
4th smallest0 · chance 1.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

17 48 9 22 31 3

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 9 such strangers by now. Every pair →

How many people play it

Under the crowd model, 12 is picked about 1.34× as often as an indifferent choice — 6th most popular of 49. 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
Numbers 1–12 — day and month overlap ×1.10

The model and its sources → · What people believe about 12 →

Every draw it appeared in

Date	Wait	Position	The draw
2026-08-26	21	2nd	5 12 17 20 41 48
2026-06-13	1	3rd	3 9 12 14 17 31
2026-06-10	5	2nd	9 12 17 22 33 47
2026-05-23	6	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: 12 is drawn with probability 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.