Pennsylvania Pick 3 · midday vs evening
Pennsylvania Pick 3 — midday vs evening
Three digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the Pennsylvania Lottery. Outcome space: 1,000 combinations.
25,925 draws1977-03-01 → 2026-06-02midday: 8,560evening: 17,365
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
8,560
1997-02-03 → 2026-06-02
Evening draws
17,365
1977-03-01 → 2026-06-01
Largest share gap
digit 5
Δ 0.47 percentage points
Midday · digit frequency
All positions
Evening · digit frequency
All positions
Share comparison
Digit share difference (midday − evening)
d=0
-0.17
pts
d=1
+0.32
pts
d=2
+0.17
pts
d=3
+0.07
pts
d=4
+0.18
pts
d=5
-0.47
pts
d=6
-0.22
pts
d=7
-0.21
pts
d=8
-0.02
pts
d=9
+0.37
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.