New Jersey Pick 3 · positional

New Jersey Pick 3 — positional

Three digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the New Jersey Lottery (Midday 12:59 PM ET, Evening 10:57 PM ET).

8,513 draws2015-03-09 → 2026-11-10midday: 4,257evening: 4,256
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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 8,513 draws (combined)
Digit-by-position heatmap

Which digit shows up where

How often each digit 0–9 landed in each position
pos / digit0123456789
P1
878
10.3%
842
9.9%
829
9.7%
821
9.6%
870
10.2%
799
9.4%
851
10.0%
886
10.4%
866
10.2%
871
10.2%
P2
823
9.7%
878
10.3%
818
9.6%
888
10.4%
877
10.3%
840
9.9%
856
10.1%
862
10.1%
862
10.1%
809
9.5%
P3
828
9.7%
855
10.0%
856
10.1%
895
10.5%
889
10.4%
853
10.0%
844
9.9%
846
9.9%
857
10.1%
790
9.3%
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Sum distribution

All digits added together (0–27)

Middling sums are commonest simply because more digit combinations produce them.

Draw count for each possible digit sum
07
126
253
376
4128
5206
6228
7298
8341
9488
10531
11598
12637
13676
14644
15600
16577
17528
18498
19395
20292
21217
22180
23133
2473
2553
2621
279
Draw shapes

Repeats inside one draw

All distinct6,175 · 72.5%
Has a double2,249 · 26.4%
Has a triple89 · 1.0%
Has a quad0 · 0.0%
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 = 07 · 0.1%
root = 1952 · 11.2%
root = 2943 · 11.1%
root = 3930 · 10.9%
root = 4984 · 11.6%
root = 5983 · 11.5%
root = 6901 · 10.6%
root = 7928 · 10.9%
root = 8890 · 10.5%
root = 9995 · 11.7%
Box-type breakdown

Pick 3 box types

Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.

single72.5% · expected 72.0%
double26.4% · expected 27.0%
triple1.0% · expected 1.0%