Pennsylvania Pick 4 · midday vs evening

Pennsylvania Pick 4 midday vs evening

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

23,405 draws1980-11-222026-06-02midday: 8,554evening: 14,851
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
8,554
1997-02-042026-06-02
Evening draws
14,851
1980-11-222026-06-01
Largest share gap
digit 3
Δ 0.38 percentage points
Midday · digit frequency

All positions

Evening · digit frequency

All positions

Share comparison

Digit share difference (midday − evening)

d=0
-0.07
pts
d=1
-0.10
pts
d=2
-0.01
pts
d=3
-0.38
pts
d=4
+0.23
pts
d=5
+0.14
pts
d=6
+0.26
pts
d=7
-0.16
pts
d=8
-0.18
pts
d=9
+0.26
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.