North Carolina Pick 4 · positional
North Carolina Pick 4 — positional
Four digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Day + Evening draws since April 2009.
12,152 draws2009-04-17 → 2026-11-10midday: 5,736evening: 6,416
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 6,416 draws (evening)
Digit-by-position heatmap
Which digit shows up where
| pos / digit | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 614 9.6% | 628 9.8% | 709 11.1% | 639 10.0% | 611 9.5% | 651 10.1% | 695 10.8% | 649 10.1% | 603 9.4% | 617 9.6% |
| P2 | 615 9.6% | 669 10.4% | 655 10.2% | 616 9.6% | 625 9.7% | 631 9.8% | 676 10.5% | 634 9.9% | 677 10.6% | 618 9.6% |
| P3 | 611 9.5% | 632 9.9% | 656 10.2% | 673 10.5% | 598 9.3% | 648 10.1% | 649 10.1% | 629 9.8% | 653 10.2% | 667 10.4% |
| P4 | 643 10.0% | 621 9.7% | 613 9.6% | 634 9.9% | 683 10.6% | 683 10.6% | 620 9.7% | 639 10.0% | 656 10.2% | 624 9.7% |
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Sum distribution
All digits added together (0–36)
Middling sums are commonest simply because more digit combinations produce them.
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 12 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 5 | 26 |
| 6 | 74 |
| 7 | 87 |
| 8 | 86 |
| 9 | 124 |
| 10 | 169 |
| 11 | 217 |
| 12 | 268 |
| 13 | 319 |
| 14 | 293 |
| 15 | 398 |
| 16 | 422 |
| 17 | 430 |
| 18 | 433 |
| 19 | 456 |
| 20 | 400 |
| 21 | 388 |
| 22 | 368 |
| 23 | 301 |
| 24 | 262 |
| 25 | 221 |
| 26 | 178 |
| 27 | 129 |
| 28 | 116 |
| 29 | 78 |
| 30 | 42 |
| 31 | 39 |
| 32 | 22 |
| 33 | 18 |
| 34 | 5 |
| 35 | 0 |
| 36 | 2 |
Draw shapes
Repeats inside one draw
All distinct3,217 · 50.1%
Has a double2,952 · 46.0%
Has a triple241 · 3.8%
Has a quad6 · 0.1%
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 = 00 · 0.0%
root = 1744 · 11.6%
root = 2700 · 10.9%
root = 3710 · 11.1%
root = 4751 · 11.7%
root = 5642 · 10.0%
root = 6752 · 11.7%
root = 7735 · 11.5%
root = 8694 · 10.8%
root = 9688 · 10.7%
Box-type breakdown
Pick 4 box types
Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.
no-match50.1% · expected 50.4%
single-double43.3% · expected 43.2%
double-double2.8% · expected 2.7%
triple3.8% · expected 3.6%
quad0.1% · expected 0.1%