Number 12

In Millionaire for Life under the 5/58 + 1/5 · since Feb 2026 rules — 234 draws, 5 from 1–58.

17times drawn · chance expected 20 −0.74σ

11draws waiting · a wait this long: 41% for any number

13.8average wait between appearances · chance says 11.6

31longest completed wait · 67% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws against 20.2 expected, −0.74σ. Each draw is independent: after 11 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 17 times in 234 draws · average wait 13.8 draws · longest completed wait 31 · waiting 11 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 smallest13 · chance 7.0
2nd smallest2 · chance 7.2
3rd smallest1 · chance 2.4
4th smallest1 · chance 0.3
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

13 15 10 26 35 44

Never drawn alongside 20 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 17 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 58. 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	1	1st	12 13 23 29 41
2026-10-01	17	1st	12 16 32 33 56
2026-09-14	17	2nd	1 12 37 40 44
2026-08-28	9	4th	8 10

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 5/58 tonight whatever it did last week.