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 5,736 draws (midday)
Digit-by-position heatmap
Which digit shows up where
| pos / digit | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 555 9.7% | 547 9.5% | 575 10.0% | 572 10.0% | 579 10.1% | 554 9.7% | 602 10.5% | 570 9.9% | 587 10.2% | 595 10.4% |
| P2 | 552 9.6% | 607 10.6% | 641 11.2% | 587 10.2% | 590 10.3% | 539 9.4% | 553 9.6% | 571 10.0% | 518 9.0% | 578 10.1% |
| P3 | 617 10.8% | 584 10.2% | 520 9.1% | 584 10.2% | 600 10.5% | 596 10.4% | 582 10.1% | 539 9.4% | 568 9.9% | 546 9.5% |
| P4 | 576 10.0% | 557 9.7% | 545 9.5% | 572 10.0% | 593 10.3% | 574 10.0% | 562 9.8% | 555 9.7% | 605 10.5% | 597 10.4% |
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Sum distribution
All digits added together (0–36)
Middling sums are commonest simply because more digit combinations produce them.
| 0 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 17 |
| 5 | 22 |
| 6 | 39 |
| 7 | 74 |
| 8 | 108 |
| 9 | 125 |
| 10 | 165 |
| 11 | 218 |
| 12 | 250 |
| 13 | 273 |
| 14 | 311 |
| 15 | 326 |
| 16 | 343 |
| 17 | 389 |
| 18 | 389 |
| 19 | 376 |
| 20 | 362 |
| 21 | 352 |
| 22 | 333 |
| 23 | 271 |
| 24 | 222 |
| 25 | 178 |
| 26 | 160 |
| 27 | 120 |
| 28 | 96 |
| 29 | 70 |
| 30 | 48 |
| 31 | 35 |
| 32 | 23 |
| 33 | 11 |
| 34 | 7 |
| 35 | 2 |
| 36 | 0 |
Draw shapes
Repeats inside one draw
All distinct2,861 · 49.9%
Has a double2,688 · 46.9%
Has a triple180 · 3.1%
Has a quad7 · 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 = 02 · 0.0%
root = 1640 · 11.2%
root = 2655 · 11.4%
root = 3661 · 11.5%
root = 4658 · 11.5%
root = 5627 · 10.9%
root = 6598 · 10.4%
root = 7602 · 10.5%
root = 8659 · 11.5%
root = 9634 · 11.1%
Box-type breakdown
Pick 4 box types
Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.
no-match49.9% · expected 50.4%
single-double44.5% · expected 43.2%
double-double2.3% · expected 2.7%
triple3.1% · expected 3.6%
quad0.1% · expected 0.1%