Iowa Lottery Pick 3 Pairs Analysis

Iowa Lottery Pick 3 Pair Frequency and Last Appearance

The Iowa Lottery Pick 3 pairs analysis involves two sets of data. The first is the number of times a pair is drawn for the entire history of the game while the second set is how many draws have elapsed since a Pick 3 pair's last appearance. Whether pairs are included as a play type of the state's game or not, these analyses coupled with others, such as digits and sums analyses, will hopefully help you select the Pick 3 numbers to play.

The Analysis was performed on Sunday, May 19, 2013 with 485 as the latest Iowa Pick 3 number. Just in case, the front pair of this number is 48, back pair, 85, and split pair, 45.

Front Pair

Back Pair

Split Pair

Pick 3 Front Pair frequencies and number of draws since last appearance

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
00	85	68
01	110	8
02	83	61
03	79	95
04	89	23
05	96	133
06	96	148
07	84	117
08	91	24
09	76	29
10	82	242
11	105	136
12	94	66
13	99	5
14	79	397
15	96	2
16	70	135
17	80	155
18	83	21
19	88	11

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
20	91	13
21	86	437
22	86	37
23	95	15
24	79	30
25	101	4
26	80	56
27	80	320
28	78	10
29	101	125
30	73	203
31	87	163
32	77	210
33	88	32
34	77	69
35	76	280
36	89	103
37	80	75
38	72	172
39	95	1

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
40	76	146
41	86	65
42	89	43
43	77	28
44	91	58
45	83	47
46	79	3
47	93	52
48	99	0
49	95	152
50	76	22
51	92	176
52	99	44
53	101	87
54	83	40
55	87	96
56	91	137
57	82	7
58	87	112
59	92	57

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
60	97	63
61	81	121
62	88	173
63	99	25
64	71	6
65	72	249
66	97	86
67	98	27
68	63	284
69	84	145
70	77	64
71	101	9
72	86	41
73	85	42
74	75	306
75	80	31
76	77	100
77	76	17
78	85	234
79	89	18

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
80	101	207
81	84	140
82	82	39
83	90	36
84	83	38
85	88	367
86	94	14
87	83	106
88	86	128
89	70	122
90	80	33
91	94	94
92	87	54
93	83	83
94	91	262
95	84	12
96	87	139
97	87	144
98	85	104
99	65	218

Expected frequency of each Pick 3 pair is 86 (rounded to the closest integer).

Each Pick 3 pair, whether repeating or not, has equal chance of being drawn. Since we have 100 of each (front, back, and split), such pairs are expected to show up every 100 draws. We have shown in blue those Pick 3 pairs that have not been drawn between 200 and 300 draws (late pairs). And in red, those that have not been drawn in the last 300 or more draws(very late pairs)

There is also another method of pairs analysis which we haven't included here. It is "pairs at any position and any order", or in other words, "two numbers appearing together". For instance, 12 in 120, 219, 102, etc. In fact, you can use our Iowa Pick 3 number search by entering "12-" to list all past Pick 3 draws that contain 1 and 2. In such type of pairs analysis, non-repeating pairs such as 12 have a better chance of being drawn than repeating, such as 11. In fact we do have this analysis for the current and previous months on our compact 2-month Iowa lottery page. Just select Pick 3 from the left bottom menu under "One Game", and then 'Pairs' from the top menu.

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