Pennsylvania Pick 3 · coverage

Pennsylvania Pick 3 coverage

Three digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the Pennsylvania Lottery. Outcome space: 1,000 combinations.

25,925 draws1977-03-012026-06-02midday: 8,560evening: 17,365
Reading this honestly
This is the classic coupon-collector view: how many unique numbers have ever been drawn, as time marches on. It rises fast at first, then crawls — exactly the curve a fair process produces. Twice-a-day draws “cover” faster only because there are more of them.
showing 25,925 draws (combined)
Cumulative unique digits seen

Out of 10 (0–9)

All ten digits get covered very quickly. The interesting pattern is in per-year coverage of unique draws, below.

Draws per year

How often the game ran each year