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.
11,850 draws2009-04-17 → 2026-06-12midday: 5,585evening: 6,265
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
5,585
2011-02-27 → 2026-06-12
Evening draws
6,265
2009-04-17 → 2026-06-11
Largest share gap
digit 4
Δ 0.50 percentage points
Midday · digit frequency
All positions
Evening · digit frequency
All positions
Share comparison
Digit share difference (midday − evening)
d=0
+0.41
pts
d=1
+0.08
pts
d=2
-0.35
pts
d=3
+0.06
pts
d=4
+0.50
pts
d=5
-0.33
pts
d=6
-0.29
pts
d=7
-0.20
pts
d=8
-0.06
pts
d=9
+0.19
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.