Number 12

In Set for Life under the 5/47 + 1/10 · since Mar 2019 rules — 791 draws, 5 from 1–47.

76times drawn · chance expected 84 −0.94σ

17draws waiting · a wait this long: 17% for any number

10.1average wait between appearances · chance says 9.4

37longest completed wait · 73% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 76 times in 791 draws against 84.1 expected, −0.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 17 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 76 times in 791 draws · average wait 10.1 draws · longest completed wait 37 · waiting 17 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 smallest29 · chance 24.4
2nd smallest34 · chance 33.5
3rd smallest11 · chance 15.2
4th smallest2 · chance 2.7
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 6.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 21 33 41 17 35

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 46 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 47. 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
2026-08-13	3	4th	4 5 10 12 36
2026-08-03	15	1st	12 20 21 24 41
2026-06-11	3	1st	12 16 32 33 41
2026-06-01	3	2nd	8 12 33 35

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 5/47 tonight whatever it did last week.

2024-05-16	19	2nd	4 12 16 21 26
2024-03-11	6	1st	12 21 30 35 44
2024-02-19	13	3rd	7 11 12 36 46
2024-01-04	6	1st	12 14 26 39 46
2023-12-14	1	1st	12 13 16 21 44
2023-12-11	4	1st	12 14 20 28 41
2023-11-27	3	2nd	10 12 35 37 47
2023-11-16	4	1st	12 18 30 40 41
2023-11-02	1	1st	12 20 41 42 46
2023-10-30	3	2nd	6 12 13 18 19
2023-10-19	7	1st	12 14 38 41 44
2023-09-25	13	2nd	6 12 13 15 41
2023-08-10	4	2nd	2 12 14 23 33
2023-07-27	23	3rd	6 11 12 20 29
2023-05-08	22	2nd	7 12 13 21 26
2023-02-20	18	1st	12 17 22 31 38
2022-12-19	1	3rd	1 9 12 36 41
2022-12-15	4	3rd	6 9 12 30 46
2022-12-01	1	1st	12 34 40 42 47
2022-11-28	2	2nd	2 12 17 19 21
2022-11-21	4	2nd	3 12 18 31 33
2022-11-07	25	2nd	10 12 13 21 42
2022-08-11	33	2nd	1 12 13 26 40
2022-04-18	37	3rd	7 9 12 31 43
2021-12-09	14	1st	12 24 29 37 47
2021-10-21	4	4th	2 3 4 12 29
2021-10-07	18	1st	12 13 23 27 33
2021-08-05	7	1st	12 24 26 35 45
2021-07-12	17	1st	12 17 31 35 39
2021-05-13	3	1st	12 30 40 42 47
2021-05-03	2	3rd	1 8 12 22 32
2021-04-26	7	2nd	8 12 13 21 25
2021-04-01	10	1st	12 26 31 32 35
2021-02-25	20	2nd	2 12 16 19 23
2020-12-17	10	1st	12 22 25 37 39
2020-11-12	8	2nd	2 12 20 22 26
2020-10-15	9	3rd	5 10 12 13 16
2020-09-14	16	1st	12 19 22 25 42
2020-07-20	4	2nd	7 12 17 32 45
2020-07-06	1	2nd	5 12 17 21 30
2020-07-02	7	2nd	11 12 24 29 33
2020-06-08	7	2nd	3 12 16 22 47
2020-05-14	18	1st	12 15 36 38 41
2020-03-12	7	2nd	7 12 15 39 42
2020-02-17	19	2nd	1 12 34 37 41
2019-12-12	14	1st	12 14 31 37 39
2019-10-24	18	2nd	4 12 17 28 36
2019-08-22	12	2nd	5 12 40 43 44
2019-07-11	7	2nd	4 12 21 42 43
2019-06-17	3	2nd	9 12 25 33 44
2019-06-06	10	2nd	7 12 20 25 36
2019-05-02	—	2nd	11 12 15 16 47