Number 12

In Roadrunner Cash under the 5/37 · since Apr 2010 rules — 5,703 draws, 5 from 1–37.

809times drawn · chance expected 771 +1.48σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

7.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.4

38longest completed wait · 98% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 809 times in 5,703 draws against 770.7 expected, +1.48σ. 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 809 times in 5,703 draws · average wait 7.0 draws · longest completed wait 38 · 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 smallest185 · chance 173.7
2nd smallest348 · chance 347.5
3rd smallest213 · chance 226.6
4th smallest56 · chance 56.7
5th smallest7 · chance 4.5

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 89.9 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

31 19 22 3 27 5

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 36 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 37. 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
2026-10-12	3	4th	1 5 9 12 19
2026-10-09	5	1st	12 16 17 21 36
2026-10-04	7	2nd	5 12 14 21 28
2026-09-27	8	1st	12 16

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 5/37 tonight whatever it did last week.