North Carolina Pick 3 · coverage
North Carolina Pick 3 — coverage
Three digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Day + Evening draws since October 2006.
13,781 draws2006-10-06 → 2026-06-12midday: 6,497evening: 7,278untagged: 6
Reading this honestly
This is the classic coupon-collector view: how many unique numbers have ever been drawn, as time marches on. It rises fast at first, then crawls — exactly the curve a fair process produces. Twice-a-day draws “cover” faster only because there are more of them.
showing 13,781 draws (combined)
Cumulative unique digits seen
Out of 10 (0–9)
All ten digits get covered very quickly. The interesting pattern is in per-year coverage of unique draws, below.
Draws per year