Number 12

In Euro Millions Plus under the 5/50 · since Sep 2024 rules — 211 draws, 5 from 1–50.

19times drawn · chance expected 21 −0.48σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

11.6average wait between appearances · chance says 10.0

43longest completed wait · 19% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 19 times in 211 draws against 21.1 expected, −0.48σ. Each draw is independent: after 0 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 19 times in 211 draws · average wait 11.6 draws · longest completed wait 43 · 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 smallest5 · chance 6.6
2nd smallest11 · chance 8.3
3rd smallest1 · chance 3.5
4th smallest1 · chance 0.6
5th smallest1 · 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.

10 28 41 49 1 2

Never drawn alongside 9 of the other 49 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 50. 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
2026-10-09	17	2nd	1 12 20 22 42
2026-08-11	2	1st	12 19 28 32 50
2026-08-04	5	2nd	2 12 33 36 39
2026-07-17	22	2nd	10 12

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 5/50 tonight whatever it did last week.