New Jersey Pick 4 · positional

New Jersey Pick 4 — positional

Four digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the New Jersey Lottery. Outcome space: 10,000 combinations.

8,509 draws2015-03-09 → 2026-11-10midday: 4,255evening: 4,254
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 8,509 draws (combined)
Digit-by-position heatmap

Which digit shows up where

How often each digit 0–9 landed in each position
pos / digit0123456789
P1
863
10.1%
880
10.3%
868
10.2%
814
9.6%
822
9.7%
840
9.9%
829
9.7%
838
9.8%
828
9.7%
927
10.9%
P2
843
9.9%
850
10.0%
867
10.2%
854
10.0%
870
10.2%
840
9.9%
804
9.4%
889
10.4%
852
10.0%
840
9.9%
P3
875
10.3%
853
10.0%
852
10.0%
838
9.8%
857
10.1%
845
9.9%
844
9.9%
891
10.5%
861
10.1%
793
9.3%
P4
849
10.0%
831
9.8%
828
9.7%
832
9.8%
855
10.0%
861
10.1%
871
10.2%
881
10.4%
864
10.2%
837
9.8%
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Sum distribution

All digits added together (0–36)

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

Draw count for each possible digit sum
01
10
28
315
429
551
659
7123
8130
9173
10270
11282
12354
13361
14503
15521
16541
17591
18572
19540
20570
21466
22426
23393
24371
25304
26232
27173
28150
29119
3075
3144
3235
3317
346
353
361
Draw shapes

Repeats inside one draw

All distinct4,315 · 50.7%
Has a double3,852 · 45.3%
Has a triple330 · 3.9%
Has a quad12 · 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 = 01 · 0.0%
root = 1960 · 11.3%
root = 2979 · 11.5%
root = 3910 · 10.7%
root = 4860 · 10.1%
root = 5982 · 11.5%
root = 6968 · 11.4%
root = 7974 · 11.4%
root = 8956 · 11.2%
root = 9919 · 10.8%
Box-type breakdown

Pick 4 box types

Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.

no-match50.7% · expected 50.4%
single-double42.6% · expected 43.2%
double-double2.7% · expected 2.7%
triple3.9% · expected 3.6%
quad0.1% · expected 0.1%