Bigg Boss Kannada season 12

Upon entrance of each housemate, the live audience voted for housemates to either enter as solo ("onti") or as duo ("janti"). A housemate should received 75% or above to enter as Solo housemate.^[2] On Day 15, the duo housemates twist was ended and all housemates were solo housemates.

  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction.

  indicates that the Housemate was immune prior to nominations.

  indicates the contestant has been evicted.

  indicates the contestant walked out due to emergency.

  indicates the contestant has been ejected.

  indicates the house captain.

• ^1 : During premiere, Malu, Rakshita & Spandana were left not selected by fellow housemates, and thus were nominated. Fellow housemates(only solo housemates) had to mutually decide to evict one nominated housemate. They chose Rakshita.
• ^2 : In this week's nominations, housemates had to nominate one solo housemate and one duo housemate.
• ^3 : On Day 5, finalist contenders - Chandra & Satish, Dhanush, Mallamma and Sudhir competed for Immunity. Sudhir won the Finalist task and secured his safety from that week’s eviction. He also had to name a replacement nominee, he chose to nominate Mallamma.
• ^4 : On Day 9, Finalist Sudhir had power to directly nominated one housemate. He chose Ashwini G. In Week 2, the nomination process, Finalist Sudhir had to nominate three solo housemates and three duo housemates. Only his nominees for final nominations for eviction.
• ^5 : On Day 10, the show was suspended due to violations of environmental regulations at the premises, and the housemates were temporarily evacuated. In the early hours of Day 11, they re-entered the house.
• ^6 : On Day 14, Host Sudeepa revealed that out of the nominated housemates, Malu & Spandana received the most votes and become Finalists.
• ^7 : In week 3 nominations, all non-finalist housemates were nominated as individual housemates.
• ^8 : On Day 18, Satish was evicted in a mid-week Eviction.
• ^9 : Voting lines were open for all housemates.
• ^10 : As part of the First Final, Sudhir was announced as the Winner, while Ashvini S and Manju were Rejected and evicted. The remaining housemates advanced to the next level of the season. Meanwhile, Raghu, Risha, and Suraj entered the house.
• ^11 : Only the three new housemates were eligible to compete as the first Captaincy contenders.
• ^12 : Only the Captain was eligible to nominate.
• ^13 : Housemates competed for safety. Abhishek, Jhanvi, Kavya, Malu, Raghu and Risha were saved.
• ^14 : Risha was directly nominated.
• ^15 : Ashwini G and Jhanvi were directly nominated.
• ^16 : At the end of nominations, Captain Raghu had the special power to directly nominate one housemate.
• ^17 : At the start of nominations, Captain Abhishek had the special power to directly nominate one housemate, which also made that housemate ineligible in the nomination process.
• ^18 : Malu was directly nominated.
• ^19 : As wild-cards, Chaitra and Rajat were exempt from this week's nominations.
• ^20 : Abhishek & Spandana became the first pair captain.
• ^20 : After Abhishek was evicted, Spandana became the solo Captain. Eventually, on Day 72, Spandana was replaced by Chaitra as Captain after Chaitra chose the Yellow Buzzer, which Bigg Boss introduced under the concept of “Villain.”
• ^21 : Captain Chaitra had the power to assign each housemate a number from 0 to 5. Housemates could nominate as many housemates as the number given to them by the Captain. Ashwini and Rakshitha received 0, meaning they did not have the power to nominate anyone.
• ^22 : Dhruvanth and Rakshita were fake evicted and moved to Secret Room.