Number 12

In North 5 under the 5/34 · since Jan 2025 rules — 642 draws, 5 from 1–34.

86times drawn · chance expected 94 −0.94σ

9draws waiting · a wait this long: 28% for any number

7.3average wait between appearances · chance says 6.8

38longest completed wait · 21% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 86 times in 642 draws against 94.4 expected, −0.94σ. Each draw is independent: after 9 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 86 times in 642 draws · average wait 7.3 draws · longest completed wait 38 · waiting 9 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 smallest18 · chance 15.4
2nd smallest33 · chance 35.6
3rd smallest27 · chance 26.7
4th smallest6 · chance 7.6
5th smallest2 · chance 0.7

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 10.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

34 5 17 24 28 18

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 33 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 34. 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
2026-10-03	2	1st	12 21 26 30 33
2026-10-01	2	2nd	6 12 18 22 24
2026-09-29	1	2nd	7 12 13 17 30
2026-09-28	4	2nd	1 12 13 28

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 5/34 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-01	5	2nd	3 12 23 24 31
2026-03-27	1	3rd	5 11 12 16 32
2026-03-26	1	1st	12 26 27 29 30
2026-03-25	2	2nd	4 12 25 32 34
2026-03-23	2	1st	12 15 23 28 33
2026-03-21	3	1st	12 20 27 29 34
2026-03-18	15	3rd	1 7 12 26 31
2026-03-03	5	2nd	4 12 22 28 33
2026-02-26	14	3rd	4 10 12 20 32
2026-02-12	5	2nd	5 12 22 32 34
2026-02-07	4	5th	1 6 9 10 12
2026-02-03	2	2nd	5 12 17 24 28
2026-02-01	2	4th	1 8 11 12 34
2026-01-30	4	3rd	5 11 12 15 20
2026-01-26	5	3rd	1 3 12 16 17
2026-01-21	1	1st	12 14 27 31 34
2026-01-20	1	1st	12 20 22 27 31
2026-01-19	6	3rd	10 11 12 24 33
2026-01-13	4	2nd	1 12 15 23 31
2026-01-09	2	4th	1 2 6 12 34
2026-01-07	6	2nd	10 12 14 16 24
2026-01-01	2	2nd	3 12 17 26 32
2025-12-30	12	1st	12 18 23 24 34
2025-12-18	3	2nd	8 12 24 25 28
2025-12-15	1	3rd	3 5 12 17 28
2025-12-14	5	3rd	1 2 12 16 31
2025-12-09	5	2nd	2 12 14 23 31
2025-12-04	7	1st	12 17 18 20 23
2025-11-27	19	2nd	5 12 15 23 26
2025-11-08	17	4th	2 5 8 12 27
2025-10-22	2	3rd	2 6 12 17 34
2025-10-20	9	3rd	5 11 12 22 33
2025-10-11	17	1st	12 14 15 26 27
2025-09-24	8	3rd	3 11 12 18 25
2025-09-16	10	2nd	11 12 19 24 29
2025-09-06	11	2nd	5 12 17 22 23
2025-08-26	5	1st	12 16 17 18 31
2025-08-21	15	2nd	11 12 17 20 26
2025-08-06	6	3rd	4 9 12 26 32
2025-07-31	9	3rd	2 6 12 14 28
2025-07-22	17	2nd	5 12 17 22 33
2025-07-05	6	3rd	5 11 12 18 22
2025-06-29	7	3rd	2 11 12 14 29
2025-06-22	1	3rd	5 10 12 20 25
2025-06-21	8	2nd	8 12 15 24 32
2025-06-13	37	2nd	11 12 14 16 34
2025-05-07	6	3rd	1 7 12 14 24
2025-05-01	9	1st	12 16 28 30 34
2025-04-22	1	3rd	5 10 12 17 18
2025-04-21	12	3rd	2 3 12 33 34
2025-04-09	10	1st	12 24 28 29 34
2025-03-30	3	3rd	5 6 12 23 29
2025-03-27	3	2nd	4 12 13 22 30
2025-03-24	14	2nd	8 12 14 28 34
2025-03-10	11	4th	6 7 8 12 14
2025-02-27	2	3rd	9 10 12 18 34
2025-02-25	10	2nd	10 12 13 20 24
2025-02-15	4	2nd	7 12 13 18 30
2025-02-11	4	1st	12 16 17 24 34
2025-02-07	11	1st	12 13 18 23 28
2025-01-27	8	2nd	4 12 16 17 25
2025-01-19	—	4th	1 4 8 12 21