Number 12

In El Gordo de la Primitiva under the 5/54 + 1/9 · since Jan 2010 rules — 866 draws, 5 from 1–54.

83times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.33σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 91% for any number

10.5average wait between appearances · chance says 10.8

47longest completed wait · 61% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 83 times in 866 draws against 80.2 expected, +0.33σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 83 times in 866 draws · average wait 10.5 draws · longest completed wait 47 · 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 smallest33 · chance 31.7
2nd smallest34 · chance 35.8
3rd smallest13 · chance 13.4
4th smallest3 · chance 2.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.3 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 33 51 24 40 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 53 numbers; chance expected about 0.1 still unmet 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 54. 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
2026-09-27	4	1st	12 21 33 35 51
2026-08-30	6	1st	12 29 33 38 50
2026-07-19	5	1st	12 28 30 38 41
2026-06-14	22	1st	12 23

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 5/54 tonight whatever it did last week.

2020-02-16	3	1st	12 29 34 51 53
2020-01-26	10	2nd	1 12 21 40 54
2019-11-17	2	2nd	1 12 24 43 47
2019-11-03	14	1st	12 14 16 32 50
2019-07-28	2	3rd	1 6 12 28 54
2019-07-14	10	1st	12 18 40 42 51
2019-05-05	5	2nd	8 12 18 20 26
2019-03-31	7	2nd	8 12 15 24 33
2019-02-10	5	1st	12 25 33 40 52
2019-01-06	4	2nd	7 12 13 15 37
2018-12-09	7	1st	12 24 27 30 32
2018-10-21	11	3rd	2 8 12 24 31
2018-08-05	12	2nd	5 12 16 23 53
2018-05-13	4	2nd	8 12 21 34 47
2018-04-15	15	2nd	2 12 25 42 52
2017-12-31	6	2nd	10 12 26 31 52
2017-11-19	8	3rd	9 11 12 36 53
2017-09-24	2	1st	12 16 19 27 51
2017-09-10	6	3rd	7 9 12 33 47
2017-07-30	1	1st	12 14 32 34 48
2017-07-23	4	2nd	7 12 34 51 52
2017-06-25	24	4th	1 2 9 12 38
2017-01-08	14	1st	12 38 41 43 53
2016-10-02	8	2nd	9 12 34 35 40
2016-08-07	10	3rd	8 9 12 25 33
2016-05-29	1	2nd	7 12 26 39 42
2016-05-22	9	2nd	6 12 14 17 24
2016-03-20	1	1st	12 13 16 37 53
2016-03-13	1	2nd	10 12 22 24 53
2016-03-06	3	2nd	5 12 30 31 48
2016-02-14	45	1st	12 21 22 25 39
2015-04-05	12	2nd	7 12 34 35 40
2015-01-11	10	2nd	3 12 19 20 52
2014-11-02	18	1st	12 17 23 30 47
2014-06-29	43	3rd	5 8 12 22 46
2013-09-01	2	3rd	1 2 12 18 39
2013-08-18	4	2nd	1 12 33 42 46
2013-07-21	10	2nd	1 12 26 44 48
2013-05-12	6	2nd	5 12 14 23 41
2013-03-31	14	1st	12 20 27 36 45
2012-12-23	11	1st	12 18 40 42 54
2012-10-07	11	1st	12 17 19 34 54
2012-07-22	6	1st	12 35 40 45 53
2012-06-10	4	4th	1 2 8 12 28
2012-05-13	10	1st	12 15 33 34 44
2012-03-04	23	1st	12 22 23 33 44
2011-09-25	1	2nd	6 12 14 24 37
2011-09-18	2	1st	12 14 27 37 48
2011-09-04	3	2nd	6 12 24 34 45
2011-08-14	24	1st	12 29 36 39 51
2011-02-27	3	2nd	11 12 21 23 28
2011-02-06	7	1st	12 14 26 39 46
2010-12-19	1	3rd	9 10 12 14 43
2010-12-12	22	1st	12 18 20 23 49
2010-07-11	7	2nd	5 12 32 34 38
2010-05-23	8	2nd	11 12 18 24 46
2010-03-28	4	2nd	2 12 28 36 46
2010-02-28	7	1st	12 24 28 29 45
2010-01-10	—	3rd	6 9 12 23 40