Pennsylvania Pick 4 · positional
Pennsylvania Pick 4 — positional
Four digits, 0–9, drawn twice daily by the Pennsylvania Lottery. Outcome space: 10,000 combinations.
23,681 draws1980-11-22 → 2026-11-10midday: 8,693evening: 14,988
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 8,693 draws (midday)
Digit-by-position heatmap
Which digit shows up where
| pos / digit | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P1 | 825 9.5% | 845 9.7% | 863 9.9% | 905 10.4% | 867 10.0% | 911 10.5% | 926 10.7% | 868 10.0% | 793 9.1% | 890 10.2% |
| P2 | 856 9.8% | 874 10.1% | 842 9.7% | 871 10.0% | 874 10.1% | 886 10.2% | 865 10.0% | 870 10.0% | 859 9.9% | 896 10.3% |
| P3 | 857 9.9% | 808 9.3% | 897 10.3% | 847 9.7% | 924 10.6% | 894 10.3% | 841 9.7% | 819 9.4% | 874 10.1% | 932 10.7% |
| P4 | 908 10.4% | 874 10.1% | 883 10.2% | 865 10.0% | 882 10.1% | 850 9.8% | 865 10.0% | 869 10.0% | 849 9.8% | 848 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.
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 9 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 5 | 49 |
| 6 | 75 |
| 7 | 127 |
| 8 | 142 |
| 9 | 201 |
| 10 | 240 |
| 11 | 306 |
| 12 | 336 |
| 13 | 395 |
| 14 | 497 |
| 15 | 493 |
| 16 | 569 |
| 17 | 552 |
| 18 | 604 |
| 19 | 582 |
| 20 | 558 |
| 21 | 470 |
| 22 | 452 |
| 23 | 430 |
| 24 | 349 |
| 25 | 300 |
| 26 | 276 |
| 27 | 214 |
| 28 | 135 |
| 29 | 121 |
| 30 | 68 |
| 31 | 40 |
| 32 | 31 |
| 33 | 18 |
| 34 | 10 |
| 35 | 5 |
| 36 | 1 |
Draw shapes
Repeats inside one draw
All distinct4,322 · 49.7%
Has a double4,030 · 46.4%
Has a triple330 · 3.8%
Has a quad11 · 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 = 1959 · 11.0%
root = 2994 · 11.4%
root = 3885 · 10.2%
root = 4912 · 10.5%
root = 51,007 · 11.6%
root = 6935 · 10.8%
root = 71,006 · 11.6%
root = 8975 · 11.2%
root = 91,020 · 11.7%
Box-type breakdown
Pick 4 box types
Observed share vs the theoretical share under uniform random digits.
no-match49.7% · expected 50.4%
single-double43.7% · expected 43.2%
double-double2.7% · expected 2.7%
triple3.8% · expected 3.6%
quad0.1% · expected 0.1%