North Carolina Pick 3 · positional
North Carolina Pick 3 — positional
Three digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Day + Evening draws since October 2006.
14,082 draws2006-10-06 → 2026-11-10midday: 6,648evening: 7,434
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 14,082 draws (combined)
Digit-by-position heatmap
Which digit shows up where
| pos / digit | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 1429 10.1% | 1458 10.4% | 1408 10.0% | 1403 10.0% | 1302 9.2% | 1429 10.1% | 1424 10.1% | 1361 9.7% | 1461 10.4% | 1407 10.0% |
| P2 | 1365 9.7% | 1445 10.3% | 1448 10.3% | 1403 10.0% | 1406 10.0% | 1341 9.5% | 1410 10.0% | 1473 10.5% | 1398 9.9% | 1393 9.9% |
| P3 | 1412 10.0% | 1409 10.0% | 1439 10.2% | 1418 10.1% | 1476 10.5% | 1467 10.4% | 1432 10.2% | 1359 9.7% | 1329 9.4% | 1341 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.
| 0 | 14 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 43 |
| 2 | 90 |
| 3 | 151 |
| 4 | 223 |
| 5 | 282 |
| 6 | 398 |
| 7 | 493 |
| 8 | 703 |
| 9 | 781 |
| 10 | 880 |
| 11 | 1,006 |
| 12 | 1,015 |
| 13 | 1,035 |
| 14 | 1,047 |
| 15 | 1,022 |
| 16 | 941 |
| 17 | 869 |
| 18 | 770 |
| 19 | 675 |
| 20 | 469 |
| 21 | 404 |
| 22 | 290 |
| 23 | 211 |
| 24 | 159 |
| 25 | 65 |
| 26 | 38 |
| 27 | 8 |
Draw shapes
Repeats inside one draw
All distinct10,164 · 72.2%
Has a double3,782 · 26.9%
Has a triple136 · 1.0%
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 = 014 · 0.1%
root = 11,598 · 11.3%
root = 21,565 · 11.1%
root = 31,570 · 11.1%
root = 41,548 · 11.0%
root = 51,540 · 10.9%
root = 61,579 · 11.2%
root = 71,499 · 10.6%
root = 81,610 · 11.4%
root = 91,559 · 11.1%
Box-type breakdown
Pick 3 box types
Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.
single72.2% · expected 72.0%
double26.9% · expected 27.0%
triple1.0% · expected 1.0%