Number 12

In Daily Grand under the 5/49 + 1/7 · since Apr 2025 rules — 159 draws, 5 from 1–49.

16times drawn · chance expected 16 −0.06σ

14draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 9.8

20longest completed wait · 87% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws against 16.2 expected, −0.06σ. Each draw is independent: after 14 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 159 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 20 · waiting 14 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 smallest5 · chance 5.4
2nd smallest8 · chance 7.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.0
4th smallest0 · chance 0.5
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

37 39 42 48 11 21

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 13 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
2026-08-24	3	1st	12 18 20 30 37
2026-08-13	17	2nd	2 12 36 42 48
2026-06-15	1	1st	12 18 19 27 39
2026-06-11	3	3rd	4 6 12 21

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 5/49 tonight whatever it did last week.