Number 12

In MO Millions under the 6/42 · since Nov 2025 rules — 101 draws, 6 from 1–42.

10times drawn · chance expected 14 −1.26σ

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

11.0average wait between appearances · chance says 7.0

25longest completed wait · 20% chance of one at least that long

12 is drawn as often as chance explains

Drawn 10 times in 101 draws against 14.4 expected, −1.26σ. 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 10 times in 101 draws · average wait 11.0 draws · longest completed wait 25 · 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 smallest2 · chance 1.9
2nd smallest4 · chance 4.0
3rd smallest3 · chance 3.0
4th smallest1 · chance 1.0
5th smallest0 · 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 1.2 shared draws, and the leaders are simply the ones that came out ahead this time.

1 18 22 33 4 5

Never drawn alongside 13 of the other 41 numbers; chance expects about 12 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 42. 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
2026-10-14	4	4th	1 8 11 12 19 39
2026-09-30	13	2nd	9 12 22 37 40 41
2026-08-15	23	1st	12 21 23 26 33 41
2026-05-27	3	2nd

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 6/42 tonight whatever it did last week.