Number 12

In Lotto Max under the 7/52 + 1/52 · since Apr 2026 rules — 52 draws, 7 from 1–52.

12times drawn · chance expected 7 +2.03σ

1draws waiting · a wait this long: >99% for any number

4.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

13longest completed wait · 88% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 52 draws against 7.0 expected, +2.03σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 1 time, counted separately.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 12 times in 52 draws · average wait 4.5 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 1 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 smallest1 · chance 2.6
2nd smallest8 · chance 4.8
3rd smallest1 · chance 3.3
4th smallest2 · chance 1.1
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

52 32 11 34 50 1

Never drawn alongside 11 of the other 51 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 52. 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
2026-10-06	4	2nd	11 12 22 31 32 46 50
2026-09-22	4	3rd	1 10 12 17 30 37 42
2026-09-08	1	1st	12 18 19 35 43 49 52

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 7/52 tonight whatever it did last week.