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 4,255 draws (midday)
Digit-by-position heatmap

Which digit shows up where

How often each digit 0–9 landed in each position
pos / digit0123456789
P1
400
9.4%
466
11.0%
421
9.9%
394
9.3%
402
9.4%
429
10.1%
435
10.2%
408
9.6%
427
10.0%
473
11.1%
P2
416
9.8%
441
10.4%
418
9.8%
411
9.7%
463
10.9%
406
9.5%
399
9.4%
447
10.5%
431
10.1%
423
9.9%
P3
430
10.1%
414
9.7%
446
10.5%
405
9.5%
416
9.8%
415
9.8%
430
10.1%
444
10.4%
424
10.0%
431
10.1%
P4
423
9.9%
418
9.8%
400
9.4%
446
10.5%
425
10.0%
429
10.1%
423
9.9%
465
10.9%
415
9.8%
411
9.7%
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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
00
10
26
36
417
524
625
760
862
986
10144
11144
12156
13161
14256
15253
16272
17306
18292
19284
20292
21226
22214
23187
24187
25148
26109
27102
2875
2961
3048
3117
3220
339
343
352
361
Draw shapes

Repeats inside one draw

All distinct2,209 · 51.9%
Has a double1,894 · 44.5%
Has a triple148 · 3.5%
Has a quad4 · 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 = 00 · 0.0%
root = 1503 · 11.8%
root = 2503 · 11.8%
root = 3436 · 10.2%
root = 4409 · 9.6%
root = 5487 · 11.4%
root = 6474 · 11.1%
root = 7483 · 11.4%
root = 8479 · 11.3%
root = 9481 · 11.3%
Box-type breakdown

Pick 4 box types

Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.

no-match51.9% · expected 50.4%
single-double41.6% · expected 43.2%
double-double2.9% · expected 2.7%
triple3.5% · expected 3.6%
quad0.1% · expected 0.1%