Number 12

In Lottario under the 6/45 + 1/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–45.

16times drawn · chance expected 14 +0.49σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 87% for any number

6.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.5

22longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws against 14.3 expected, +0.49σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday. It has also come out as the bonus ball 3 times, counted separately.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.5 draws · longest completed wait 22 · waiting 2 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 smallest3 · chance 3.5
2nd smallest9 · chance 6.6
3rd smallest2 · chance 4.4
4th smallest2 · chance 1.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 2 11 30 37 15

Never drawn alongside 7 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 45. 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
2026-09-26	1	2nd	2 12 14 16 28 41
2026-09-19	7	2nd	11 12 13 29 37 39
2026-08-01	2	1st	12 16 28 31 37 41
2026-07-18	5	3rd

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 6/45 tonight whatever it did last week.