Number 12

In Lotto under the 5/90 · since Oct 2025 rules — 118 draws, 5 from 1–90.

9times drawn · chance expected 7 +0.98σ

2draws waiting · a wait this long: 94% for any number

11.1average wait between appearances · chance says 18.0

23longest completed wait · 93% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 9 times in 118 draws against 6.6 expected, +0.98σ. Each draw is independent: after 2 draws away it is exactly as likely tonight as a number drawn yesterday.

Number 12, draw by draw

Drawn 9 times in 118 draws · average wait 11.1 draws · longest completed wait 23 · waiting 2 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 smallest4 · chance 5.3
2nd smallest4 · chance 3.1
3rd smallest1 · chance 0.6
4th smallest0 · chance 0.0
5th smallest0 · chance 0.0

Every position’s lane →

The company it keeps

Seen most often with these — chance gives every partner about 0.4 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

14 54 59 72 2 4

Never drawn alongside 58 of the other 89 numbers; chance expects about 59 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 90. 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
2026-10-17	2	1st	12 14 22 54 59
2026-10-13	3	1st	12 33 45 52 59
2026-10-06	23	2nd	6 12 43 54 84
2026-08-17	17	2nd	10 12 44 77 80

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 5/90 tonight whatever it did last week.