Star 12

In Eurojackpot under the 5/50 + 2/12 · since Mar 2022 rules — 477 draws, 2 from 1–12.

85times drawn · chance expected 80 +0.68σ

4draws waiting · a wait this long: 58% for any number

5.6average wait between appearances · chance says 6.0

25longest completed wait · 65% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 85 times in 477 draws against 79.5 expected, +0.68σ. Each draw is independent: after 4 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 85 times in 477 draws · average wait 5.6 draws · longest completed wait 25 · waiting 4 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 large number the high positions more often. That is the shape of sorting, not of the machine.

1st smallest0 · chance 0.0
2nd smallest85 · chance 85.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 7.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

6 7 5 10 3 1

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 11 numbers; chance expected about 0.0 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 12. 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
2026-10-02	6	2nd	7 12
2026-09-11	11	2nd	1 12
2026-08-04	7	2nd	1 12
2026-07-10	5	2nd	5 12
2026-06-23	1	2nd	4 12
2026-06-19	7	2nd	5 12
2026-05-26	3

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 2/12 tonight whatever it did last week.

2025-06-03	3	2nd	1 12
2025-05-23	2	2nd	7 12
2025-05-16	1	2nd	6 12
2025-05-13	7	2nd	5 12
2025-04-18	5	2nd	3 12
2025-04-01	3	2nd	9 12
2025-03-21	6	2nd	6 12
2025-02-28	2	2nd	8 12
2025-02-21	3	2nd	11 12
2025-02-11	4	2nd	1 12
2025-01-28	8	2nd	5 12
2024-12-31	7	2nd	7 12
2024-12-06	8	2nd	2 12
2024-11-08	7	2nd	9 12
2024-10-15	1	2nd	4 12
2024-10-11	7	2nd	10 12
2024-09-17	5	2nd	11 12
2024-08-30	3	2nd	11 12
2024-08-20	8	2nd	6 12
2024-07-23	6	2nd	6 12
2024-07-02	1	2nd	6 12
2024-06-28	1	2nd	10 12
2024-06-25	9	2nd	3 12
2024-05-24	8	2nd	6 12
2024-04-26	3	2nd	5 12
2024-04-16	1	2nd	1 12
2024-04-12	10	2nd	1 12
2024-03-08	1	2nd	4 12
2024-03-05	6	2nd	8 12
2024-02-13	15	2nd	10 12
2023-12-22	1	2nd	2 12
2023-12-19	2	2nd	6 12
2023-12-12	6	2nd	9 12
2023-11-21	18	2nd	3 12
2023-09-19	7	2nd	4 12
2023-08-25	15	2nd	10 12
2023-07-04	5	2nd	5 12
2023-06-16	8	2nd	7 12
2023-05-19	5	2nd	3 12
2023-05-02	9	2nd	11 12
2023-03-31	6	2nd	5 12
2023-03-10	9	2nd	5 12
2023-02-07	3	2nd	7 12
2023-01-27	6	2nd	3 12
2023-01-06	6	2nd	7 12
2022-12-16	4	2nd	8 12
2022-12-02	1	2nd	11 12
2022-11-29	3	2nd	7 12
2022-11-18	1	2nd	11 12
2022-11-15	1	2nd	9 12
2022-11-11	8	2nd	3 12
2022-10-14	6	2nd	7 12
2022-09-23	3	2nd	2 12
2022-09-13	3	2nd	8 12
2022-09-02	2	2nd	7 12
2022-08-26	22	2nd	10 12
2022-06-10	3	2nd	10 12
2022-05-31	7	2nd	4 12
2022-05-06	8	2nd	10 12
2022-04-08	1	2nd	5 12
2022-04-05	—	2nd	8 12