Number 12

In MultiMatch under the 6/43 · since Sep 2025 rules — 109 draws, 6 from 1–43.

15times drawn · chance expected 15 −0.06σ

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

7.1average wait between appearances · chance says 7.2

16longest completed wait · 79% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 15 times in 109 draws against 15.2 expected, −0.06σ. 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 109 draws · average wait 7.1 draws · longest completed wait 16 · 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 smallest4 · chance 3.0
2nd smallest4 · chance 6.1
3rd smallest4 · chance 4.4
4th smallest3 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.8 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 8 1 4 14 16

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 42 numbers; chance expects about 7 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 43. 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
2026-10-08	9	1st	12 23 29 31 33 34
2026-09-07	6	2nd	7 12 19 22 32 43
2026-08-17	3	4th	1 8 10 12 35 41
2026-08-06	4	3rd

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 6/43 tonight whatever it did last week.