North Carolina Pick 3 · midday vs evening
North Carolina Pick 3 — midday vs evening
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
Midday and Evening are two independent drawings, even though they share a date. Differences you see here are sample noise — neither stream “runs hotter” than the other.
Midday draws
6,497
2008-03-31 → 2026-06-12
Evening draws
7,278
2006-10-06 → 2026-06-11
Largest share gap
digit 5
Δ 0.52 percentage points
Midday · digit frequency
All positions
Evening · digit frequency
All positions
Share comparison
Digit share difference (midday − evening)
d=0
-0.13
pts
d=1
-0.20
pts
d=2
-0.21
pts
d=3
-0.18
pts
d=4
-0.19
pts
d=5
+0.52
pts
d=6
+0.05
pts
d=7
+0.18
pts
d=8
+0.00
pts
d=9
+0.15
pts
Differences this small (typically < 0.5 pts) are exactly what independent random sampling produces over tens of thousands of draws. Useful as a sanity check, not a signal.