Colorado Pick 3 · positional

Colorado Pick 3 — positional

Three digits, 0–9, drawn by the Colorado Lottery since April 2013. Evening-only until December 2016, when a Midday draw was added — so the two streams cover different spans. Colorado runs no 4-digit game. Outcome space: 1,000 combinations.

8,528 draws2013-04-28 → 2026-10-11midday: 3,625evening: 4,903

Reading this honestly

Each cell shows how often a digit landed in a particular slot. If the draws are fair, every slot should look like 0–9 picked from a hat — about 10% each, with sample noise. Any heat pattern you can see by eye is almost certainly within that noise band.

showing 4,903 draws (evening)

Digit-by-position heatmap

Which digit shows up where

How often each digit 0–9 landed in each position
pos / digit	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
P1	473 9.6%	489 10.0%	452 9.2%	538 11.0%	499 10.2%	470 9.6%	512 10.4%	490 10.0%	484 9.9%	496 10.1%
P2	484 9.9%	468 9.5%	479 9.8%	502 10.2%	499 10.2%	474 9.7%	462 9.4%	501 10.2%	531 10.8%	503 10.3%
P3	509 10.4%	511 10.4%	553 11.3%	484 9.9%	461 9.4%	486 9.9%	503 10.3%	483 9.9%	445 9.1%	468 9.5%

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Sum distribution

All digits added together (0–27)

Middling sums are commonest simply because more digit combinations produce them.

Draw count for each possible digit sum
0	1
1	8
2	30
3	49
4	82
5	100
6	131
7	192
8	225
9	303
10	320
11	338
12	333
13	387
14	346
15	354
16	327
17	281
18	265
19	200
20	201
21	146
22	106
23	81
24	54
25	23
26	13
27	7

Draw shapes

Repeats inside one draw

All distinct3,575 · 72.9%

Has a double1,293 · 26.4%

Has a triple35 · 0.7%

Has a quad0 · 0.0%

Digital root distribution

Sum reduced to a single digit (0–9)

Digital root keeps adding digits until one is left. Reference under uniform digits ≈ 11.1% per class for 1–9, lower for 0.

root = 01 · 0.0%

root = 1528 · 10.8%

root = 2569 · 11.6%

root = 3528 · 10.8%

root = 4575 · 11.7%

root = 5527 · 10.7%

root = 6539 · 11.0%

root = 7542 · 11.1%

root = 8519 · 10.6%

root = 9575 · 11.7%

Box-type breakdown

Pick 3 box types

Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.

single72.9% · expected 72.0%

double26.4% · expected 27.0%

triple0.7% · expected 1.0%

0	1
1	8
2	30
3	49
4	82
5	100
6	131
7	192
8	225
9	303
10	320
11	338
12	333
13	387
14	346
15	354
16	327
17	281
18	265
19	200
20	201
21	146
22	106
23	81
24	54
25	23
26	13
27	7

0	1
1	8
2	30
3	49
4	82
5	100
6	131
7	192
8	225
9	303
10	320
11	338
12	333
13	387
14	346
15	354
16	327
17	281
18	265
19	200
20	201
21	146
22	106
23	81
24	54
25	23
26	13
27	7

0	1
1	8
2	30
3	49
4	82
5	100
6	131
7	192
8	225
9	303
10	320
11	338
12	333
13	387
14	346
15	354
16	327
17	281
18	265
19	200
20	201
21	146
22	106
23	81
24	54
25	23
26	13
27	7