Number 12

In Lotto under the 6/58 + 1/56 · since Sep 2025 rules — 107 draws, 6 from 1–58.

16times drawn · chance expected 11 +1.57σ

3draws waiting · a wait this long: 80% for any number

6.8average wait between appearances · chance says 9.7

13longest completed wait · 99% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws against 11.1 expected, +1.57σ. Each draw is independent: after 3 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 16 times in 107 draws · average wait 6.8 draws · longest completed wait 13 · waiting 3 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 smallest2 · chance 5.2
2nd smallest7 · chance 6.9
3rd smallest6 · chance 3.2
4th smallest0 · chance 0.7
5th smallest1 · chance 0.1
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 7 24 6 14 23

Never drawn alongside 15 of the other 57 numbers; chance expects about 14 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
2026-09-30	6	5th	3 4 6 7 12 46
2026-09-09	5	1st	12 22 24 34 45 47
2026-08-22	6	3rd	5 10 12 14 23 41
2026-08-01	11	3rd	9 11

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 6/58 tonight whatever it did last week.