Massachusetts The Numbers Game · midday vs evening
Massachusetts The Numbers Game — midday vs evening
Four digits, 0–9, drawn by the Massachusetts Lottery ("The Numbers Game") since April 1976 — the longest-running series on the site. Evening-only for its first three decades, with a Midday draw added later. Massachusetts runs no 3-digit game. Outcome space: 10,000 combinations.
24,428 draws1976-04-10 → 2026-10-11midday: 6,699evening: 17,729
Reading this honestly
A game’s daily streams are independent drawings, even though they share a date. Differences you see here are sample noise — no stream “runs hotter” than another.
Midday draws
6,699
2008-06-09 → 2026-10-11
Evening draws
17,729
1976-04-10 → 2026-10-11
Largest share spread
digit 7
Δ 0.39 pts across streams
Midday · digit frequency
All positions
Evening · digit frequency
All positions
Share comparison
Digit share by stream (% of digits drawn)
| Digit | Midday | Evening | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| d=0 | 9.77 | 9.91 | 0.13 |
| d=1 | 10.14 | 9.87 | 0.27 |
| d=2 | 10.00 | 10.14 | 0.14 |
| d=3 | 9.97 | 10.07 | 0.10 |
| d=4 | 10.02 | 10.23 | 0.22 |
| d=5 | 10.06 | 9.87 | 0.20 |
| d=6 | 10.00 | 10.01 | 0.01 |
| d=7 | 9.75 | 10.14 | 0.39 |
| d=8 | 10.18 | 9.97 | 0.22 |
| d=9 | 10.10 | 9.81 | 0.29 |
Spreads this small (typically < 1 pt) are exactly what independent random sampling produces. The streams are separate drawings with the same odds — this is a sanity check, not a signal.