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

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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 6,648 draws (midday)

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	656 9.9%	667 10.0%	659 9.9%	641 9.6%	591 8.9%	691 10.4%	698 10.5%	678 10.2%	680 10.2%	687 10.3%
P2	639 9.6%	700 10.5%	669 10.1%	653 9.8%	672 10.1%	647 9.7%	638 9.6%	680 10.2%	689 10.4%	661 9.9%
P3	678 10.2%	646 9.7%	681 10.2%	680 10.2%	696 10.5%	714 10.7%	690 10.4%	633 9.5%	604 9.1%	626 9.4%

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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	4
1	20
2	43
3	58
4	106
5	136
6	192
7	229
8	345
9	356
10	430
11	449
12	502
13	468
14	476
15	478
16	455
17	424
18	367
19	312
20	220
21	197
22	142
23	101
24	77
25	37
26	19
27	5

Draw shapes

Repeats inside one draw

All distinct4,786 · 72.0%

Has a double1,797 · 27.0%

Has a triple65 · 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 = 04 · 0.1%

root = 1762 · 11.5%

root = 2712 · 10.7%

root = 3757 · 11.4%

root = 4716 · 10.8%

root = 5713 · 10.7%

root = 6747 · 11.2%

root = 7721 · 10.8%

root = 8788 · 11.9%

root = 9728 · 11.0%

Box-type breakdown

Pick 3 box types

Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.

single72.0% · expected 72.0%

double27.0% · expected 27.0%

triple1.0% · expected 1.0%

0	4
1	20
2	43
3	58
4	106
5	136
6	192
7	229
8	345
9	356
10	430
11	449
12	502
13	468
14	476
15	478
16	455
17	424
18	367
19	312
20	220
21	197
22	142
23	101
24	77
25	37
26	19
27	5

0	4
1	20
2	43
3	58
4	106
5	136
6	192
7	229
8	345
9	356
10	430
11	449
12	502
13	468
14	476
15	478
16	455
17	424
18	367
19	312
20	220
21	197
22	142
23	101
24	77
25	37
26	19
27	5

0	4
1	20
2	43
3	58
4	106
5	136
6	192
7	229
8	345
9	356
10	430
11	449
12	502
13	468
14	476
15	478
16	455
17	424
18	367
19	312
20	220
21	197
22	142
23	101
24	77
25	37
26	19
27	5