Number 12

In Ontario 49 under the 6/49 + 1/49 · since Nov 2025 rules — 92 draws, 6 from 1–49.

12times drawn · chance expected 11 +0.23σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

8.2average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

33longest completed wait · 16% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 12 times in 92 draws against 11.3 expected, +0.23σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 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 92 draws · average wait 8.2 draws · longest completed wait 33 · drawn in the most recent draw

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 3.1
2nd smallest5 · chance 5.1
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.0
4th smallest1 · chance 0.8
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 1.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

28 7 15 22 31 47

Never drawn alongside 14 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 14 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
2026-10-10	2	1st	12 28 36 39 45 47
2026-10-03	8	1st	12 15 19 29 42 47
2026-09-05	16	2nd	11 12 13 15 29 42
2026-07-11	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 6/49 tonight whatever it did last week.