Number 12

In Western 49 under the 6/49 · since May 2025 rules — 145 draws, 6 from 1–49.

15times drawn · chance expected 18 −0.70σ

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

9.5average wait between appearances · chance says 8.2

21longest completed wait · 66% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws against 17.8 expected, −0.70σ. Each draw is independent: after 1 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 15 times in 145 draws · average wait 9.5 draws · longest completed wait 21 · 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 smallest5 · chance 3.8
2nd smallest4 · chance 6.4
3rd smallest6 · chance 3.7
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 1.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

44 2 45 11 29 30

Never drawn alongside 6 of the other 48 numbers; chance expects about 10 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
2026-10-07	21	1st	12 28 30 38 42 49
2026-07-25	19	2nd	2 12 14 24 39 45
2026-05-20	14	3rd	7 8 12 31 44 45
2026-04-01	7	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.