Number 12

In Daily Tennessee Jackpot under the 5/38 · since Nov 2022 rules — 1,430 draws, 5 from 1–38.

191times drawn · chance expected 188 +0.22σ

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

7.5average wait between appearances · chance says 7.6

39longest completed wait · 59% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 191 times in 1,430 draws against 188.2 expected, +0.22σ. 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 191 times in 1,430 draws · average wait 7.5 draws · longest completed wait 39 · 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 smallest33 · chance 43.2
2nd smallest83 · chance 82.7
3rd smallest58 · chance 51.7
4th smallest16 · chance 12.4
5th smallest1 · chance 1.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 20.6 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

9 3 10 22 18 5

It has shared a draw with every one of the other 37 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 38. 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
2026-10-11	2	1st	12 20 21 22 24
2026-10-09	1	3rd	10 11 12 15 31
2026-10-08	5	3rd	5 11 12 27 29
2026-10-03	1	2nd	3

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 5/38 tonight whatever it did last week.

2026-04-25	4	4th	1 3 9 12 24
2026-04-21	29	2nd	11 12 13 25 35
2026-03-23	3	1st	12 19 28 31 34
2026-03-20	5	2nd	1 12 23 24 25
2026-03-15	1	2nd	1 12 21 31 36
2026-03-14	11	2nd	5 12 14 23 37
2026-03-03	1	3rd	1 10 12 22 36
2026-03-02	2	3rd	6 7 12 14 35
2026-02-28	2	2nd	2 12 27 33 34
2026-02-26	3	2nd	9 12 27 33 36
2026-02-23	14	4th	4 7 11 12 19
2026-02-09	7	2nd	4 12 22 25 32
2026-02-02	9	2nd	7 12 13 16 19
2026-01-24	7	2nd	5 12 19 26 32
2026-01-17	6	3rd	2 6 12 28 36
2026-01-11	11	3rd	9 10 12 28 36
2025-12-31	7	2nd	11 12 16 30 38
2025-12-24	36	2nd	7 12 15 19 24
2025-11-18	9	2nd	11 12 14 21 31
2025-11-09	4	2nd	9 12 17 18 28
2025-11-05	11	1st	12 14 18 30 37
2025-10-25	10	2nd	9 12 24 26 36
2025-10-15	4	4th	5 9 10 12 37
2025-10-11	2	3rd	1 10 12 18 20
2025-10-09	2	3rd	3 9 12 16 31
2025-10-07	23	3rd	7 10 12 19 27
2025-09-14	8	3rd	5 10 12 20 28
2025-09-06	4	3rd	1 3 12 15 36
2025-09-02	2	3rd	4 5 12 22 29
2025-08-31	8	1st	12 14 24 32 33
2025-08-23	2	2nd	6 12 13 33 38
2025-08-21	2	4th	1 5 8 12 32
2025-08-19	10	1st	12 13 27 34 38
2025-08-09	15	1st	12 16 20 22 26
2025-07-25	1	3rd	7 8 12 15 38
2025-07-24	12	2nd	3 12 16 29 35
2025-07-12	1	1st	12 21 27 33 34
2025-07-11	8	2nd	5 12 15 27 29
2025-07-03	1	2nd	7 12 13 18 34
2025-07-02	16	2nd	8 12 18 29 32
2025-06-16	1	3rd	2 3 12 18 27
2025-06-15	4	5th	1 3 4 9 12
2025-06-11	1	3rd	1 10 12 18 36
2025-06-10	6	4th	1 2 9 12 38
2025-06-04	10	2nd	1 12 15 23 37
2025-05-25	28	2nd	4 12 29 32 34
2025-04-27	5	2nd	9 12 19 20 36
2025-04-22	8	2nd	11 12 17 20 23
2025-04-14	6	3rd	3 5 12 15 37
2025-04-08	6	3rd	5 11 12 28 29
2025-04-02	5	2nd	6 12 15 18 20
2025-03-28	2	3rd	2 6 12 18 24
2025-03-26	4	2nd	4 12 15 24 31
2025-03-22	9	2nd	10 12 21 33 36
2025-03-13	10	2nd	6 12 14 19 21
2025-03-03	15	2nd	8 12 18 19 28
2025-02-16	1	1st	12 20 22 24 29
2025-02-15	2	2nd	2 12 13 23 35
2025-02-13	10	3rd	4 5 12 13 30
2025-02-03	1	1st	12 14 22 31 36
2025-02-02	8	3rd	3 11 12 18 25
2025-01-25	12	3rd	5 10 12 20 22
2025-01-13	13	3rd	1 2 12 15 32
2024-12-31	8	2nd	7 12 15 28 34
2024-12-23	1	1st	12 22 23 24 29
2024-12-22	6	1st	12 17 21 22 31
2024-12-16	17	1st	12 16 31 35 37
2024-11-29	5	2nd	6 12 17 18 26
2024-11-24	7	4th	2 7 8 12 17
2024-11-17	5	2nd	9 12 14 23 27
2024-11-12	11	2nd	7 12 17 22 38
2024-11-01	11	3rd	3 5 12 13 34
2024-10-21	1	4th	1 4 10 12 27
2024-10-20	2	2nd	7 12 13 19 36
2024-10-18	6	4th	4 7 10 12 35
2024-10-12	7	1st	12 21 34 35 36
2024-10-05	1	2nd	7 12 21 24 38
2024-10-04	21	3rd	3 8 12 26 31
2024-09-13	3	3rd	1 11 12 13 22
2024-09-10	8	2nd	9 12 14 26 33
2024-09-02	8	4th	3 5 9 12 21
2024-08-25	8	2nd	6 12 14 29 32
2024-08-17	2	3rd	2 8 12 18 22
2024-08-15	2	3rd	1 3 12 19 25
2024-08-13	3	2nd	4 12 32 33 38
2024-08-10	27	3rd	5 6 12 16 17
2024-07-14	5	1st	12 17 25 29 33
2024-07-09	5	2nd	9 12 29 36 37
2024-07-04	3	2nd	1 12 13 31 37
2024-07-01	2	4th	2 7 10 12 24
2024-06-29	4	2nd	11 12 20 23 26
2024-06-25	4	2nd	8 12 28 29 33
2024-06-21	5	3rd	3 5 12 29 34
2024-06-16	13	2nd	8 12 18 26 30
2024-06-03	1	1st	12 16 18 19 22
2024-06-02	2	2nd	1 12 16 21 23
2024-05-31	1	1st	12 16 20 27 35
2024-05-30	9	1st	12 18 31 32 38
2024-05-21	2	1st	12 19 25 26 36
2024-05-19	13	3rd	5 10 12 20 22
2024-05-06	1	2nd	10 12 28 32 35
2024-05-05	4	2nd	2 12 13 27 37
2024-05-01	1	2nd	4 12 15 31 35
2024-04-30	24	1st	12 13 21 22 37
2024-04-06	17	3rd	2 3 12 22 26
2024-03-20	5	2nd	11 12 15 34 37
2024-03-15	6	3rd	1 5 12 23 35
2024-03-09	16	2nd	6 12 14 22 29
2024-02-22	14	2nd	5 12 16 31 32
2024-02-08	2	1st	12 18 24 26 37
2024-02-06	14	2nd	8 12 24 28 33
2024-01-23	3	3rd	8 10 12 13 38
2024-01-20	10	4th	3 5 7 12 15
2024-01-10	13	3rd	3 8 12 18 29
2023-12-28	9	2nd	10 12 13 22 27
2023-12-19	17	2nd	11 12 13 19 24
2023-12-02	4	3rd	3 7 12 26 32
2023-11-28	13	1st	12 18 19 29 35
2023-11-15	3	3rd	2 11 12 13 37
2023-11-12	1	1st	12 14 22 29 32
2023-11-11	8	2nd	9 12 19 32 33
2023-11-03	1	2nd	1 12 18 19 34
2023-11-02	3	1st	12 25 30 31 34
2023-10-30	6	2nd	4 12 25 30 34
2023-10-24	4	3rd	9 10 12 23 38
2023-10-20	11	3rd	9 10 12 26 35
2023-10-09	2	1st	12 20 23 29 37
2023-10-07	6	3rd	6 10 12 26 34
2023-10-01	4	2nd	9 12 26 29 36
2023-09-27	3	2nd	3 12 22 33 36
2023-09-24	1	3rd	3 10 12 17 23
2023-09-23	16	1st	12 17 21 35 37
2023-09-07	12	3rd	6 11 12 18 33
2023-08-26	20	3rd	1 10 12 17 38
2023-08-06	1	3rd	1 7 12 16 38
2023-08-05	5	2nd	10 12 14 28 34
2023-07-31	4	3rd	2 5 12 14 18
2023-07-27	1	2nd	10 12 16 17 28
2023-07-26	4	3rd	5 11 12 13 22
2023-07-22	7	1st	12 21 27 28 34
2023-07-15	39	1st	12 27 31 34 38
2023-06-06	8	2nd	4 12 16 28 37
2023-05-29	31	2nd	2 12 13 24 25
2023-04-28	2	3rd	6 11 12 33 37
2023-04-26	4	1st	12 14 19 28 32
2023-04-22	1	2nd	4 12 26 31 38
2023-04-21	5	1st	12 19 27 31 34
2023-04-16	2	1st	12 18 22 36 37
2023-04-14	11	4th	3 9 11 12 33
2023-04-03	6	2nd	9 12 14 24 34
2023-03-28	3	4th	2 3 6 12 14
2023-03-25	2	2nd	9 12 13 30 38
2023-03-23	18	2nd	4 12 23 24 33
2023-03-05	5	2nd	6 12 13 32 38
2023-02-28	6	3rd	3 7 12 33 38
2023-02-22	6	2nd	2 12 19 33 36
2023-02-16	18	2nd	5 12 15 16 25
2023-01-29	10	3rd	2 9 12 15 17
2023-01-19	14	3rd	1 10 12 13 33
2023-01-05	2	4th	1 7 11 12 23
2023-01-03	2	2nd	1 12 22 24 27
2023-01-01	1	1st	12 16 21 27 32
2022-12-31	29	4th	5 6 8 12 36
2022-12-02	7	3rd	3 9 12 15 20
2022-11-25	4	3rd	3 10 12 22 34
2022-11-21	4	3rd	3 5 12 32 37
2022-11-17	—	3rd	6 9 12 18 29