Number 12

In Lottario Early Bird under the 4/45 · since Sep 2024 rules — 108 draws, 4 from 1–45.

10times drawn · chance expected 10 +0.14σ

16draws waiting · a wait this long: 25% for any number

9.6average wait between appearances · chance says 11.3

33longest completed wait · 37% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws against 9.6 expected, +0.14σ. Each draw is independent: after 16 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 10 times in 108 draws · average wait 9.6 draws · longest completed wait 33 · waiting 16 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 smallest1 · chance 4.1
2nd smallest6 · chance 4.4
3rd smallest3 · chance 1.4
4th smallest0 · chance 0.1

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

7 14 3 4 19 29

Never drawn alongside 23 of the other 44 numbers; chance expects about 22 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 45. 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
2026-06-27	33	1st	12 14 24 29
2025-11-08	4	2nd	3 12 14 21
2025-10-11	3	2nd	4 12 14 19
2025-09-20	6	3rd	3 9 12 43

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 4/45 tonight whatever it did last week.