North Carolina Pick 4 · midday vs evening
North Carolina Pick 4 — midday vs evening
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
A game’s daily streams are independent drawings, even though they share a date. Differences you see here are sample noise — no stream “runs hotter” than another.
Midday draws
5,736
2011-02-27 → 2026-11-10
Evening draws
6,416
2009-04-17 → 2026-11-09
Largest share spread
digit 4
Δ 0.49 pts across streams
Midday · digit frequency
All positions
Evening · digit frequency
All positions
Share comparison
Digit share by stream (% of digits drawn)
| Digit | Midday | Evening | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|
| d=0 | 10.02 | 9.68 | 0.35 |
| d=1 | 10.00 | 9.94 | 0.07 |
| d=2 | 9.94 | 10.26 | 0.32 |
| d=3 | 10.09 | 9.98 | 0.11 |
| d=4 | 10.29 | 9.81 | 0.49 |
| d=5 | 9.86 | 10.18 | 0.32 |
| d=6 | 10.02 | 10.29 | 0.27 |
| d=7 | 9.74 | 9.94 | 0.20 |
| d=8 | 9.93 | 10.09 | 0.16 |
| d=9 | 10.09 | 9.84 | 0.25 |
Spreads this small (typically < 1 pt) are exactly what independent random sampling produces. The streams are separate drawings with the same odds — this is a sanity check, not a signal.