Drawings in this set that included it.
Count if every number in the pool shared the drawings equally.
By appearances in this pool.
August 18, 2026.
Drawings since the last appearance in this set.
Most consecutive drawings missed inside this set.
What the archive shows
Mega Ball 12 is tracked here on the current matrix: the current Mega Ball field of 1 through 24, from April 8, 2025 through November 10, 2026. Drawings outside that window are in the full NY Open Data file, and they are reported separately because they used a different field.
In these 167 drawings it appeared 13 times. That is 6.0 appearances above the even-split count of 7.0. An even split gives every special ball the same share of those drawings, because one special ball is drawn each time. The median count in this pool of 24 is 7.0. Mega Ball 12 ranks 1st.
The last appearance was August 18, 2026, which is 24 drawings ago. That gap ranks 10th longest in the pool. The longest miss lasted 42 drawings, after August 22, 2025 and before it returned on January 20, 2026.
The appearance before the latest one was July 28, 2026, 6 drawings earlier. Across every pair of successive hits, the average distance is 10.2 drawings, and that average includes the drawing that brought the number back.
This set does not contain a complete calendar year, so a busiest-year label would overread a partial season. The raw yearly counts are 3 appearances in 2025 and 10 appearances in 2026. In the latest 100 drawings of this set it appeared 10 times, and in the latest 25 it appeared 1 time. Those windows are a recent stretch of drawings already held.
The most recent line was August 18, 2026: white balls 5, 19, 30, 38, 59, and Mega Ball 12.
The white balls drawn most often in the same drawing as Mega Ball 12 were white ball 50 (4 times), white ball 16 (3 times), and white ball 26 (3 times). Those are companions in the archive, not a combination the game prefers.
The neighboring special balls in this same set: Mega Ball 11 (4 appearances) and Mega Ball 13 (3 appearances). Neighbors are next to each other on the number line only. They are separate balls in the machine.
The full file holds 2,556 drawings and records 89 appearances of Mega Ball 12. The earliest of them is September 13, 2002. The full-file count mixes older matrices, so it is the wrong denominator for a current-game rate. Use the matrix count above for that comparison.
A gap of 24 drawings leaves the odds unchanged. Each current Mega Ball has a 1-in-24 chance on the next drawing. The hot, cold, and overdue guide and the odds guide explain that at more length. This page is a record of the archive fetched November 12, 2026.
Recent drawings in this set
- August 18, 2026: white balls 5, 19, 30, 38, 59, and Mega Ball 12
- July 28, 2026: white balls 34, 48, 49, 59, 70, and Mega Ball 12
- July 7, 2026: white balls 2, 31, 35, 36, 63, and Mega Ball 12
- June 30, 2026: white balls 26, 41, 50, 53, 62, and Mega Ball 12
- June 19, 2026: white balls 13, 16, 21, 26, 50, and Mega Ball 12
- June 16, 2026: white balls 12, 20, 53, 67, 70, and Mega Ball 12
- June 2, 2026: white balls 15, 26, 43, 48, 60, and Mega Ball 12
- April 24, 2026: white balls 7, 16, 32, 35, 40, and Mega Ball 12
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Related
- Hot, cold, and overdue numbers
- Mega Ball 11
- Mega Ball 13
- Mega Millions white ball 50
- Mega Millions white ball 16