Number 12

In Québec Max under the 7/50 · May 2025 – Apr 2026 rules — 96 draws, 7 from 1–50 (an earlier era).

14times drawn · chance expected 13 +0.16σ

0draws waiting — it came up last time

5.9average wait between appearances · chance says 7.1

20longest completed wait · 53% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 14 times in 96 draws against 13.4 expected, +0.16σ. 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 14 times in 96 draws · average wait 5.9 draws · longest completed wait 20 · 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 smallest2 · chance 2.8
2nd smallest6 · chance 5.5
3rd smallest5 · chance 4.1
4th smallest1 · chance 1.4
5th smallest0 · chance 0.2
6th smallest0 · chance 0.0
7th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 1.7 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

29 9 33 3 11 13

Never drawn alongside 4 of the other 49 numbers; chance expects about 9 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 50. 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
2026-04-21	9	2nd	1 12 15 21 34 35 50
2026-03-20	4	2nd	11 12 15 23 30 32 47
2026-03-06	5	2nd	10 12 24 29 35

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 7/50 tonight whatever it did last week.