North Carolina Lottery Pick 3 Pairs Analysis

North Carolina Lottery Pick 3 Pair Frequency and Last Appearance

The North Carolina 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 Tuesday, May 21, 2013 with 253 as the latest North Carolina Pick 3 number. Just in case, the front pair of this number is 25, back pair, 53, and split pair, 23.

Front Pair

Back Pair

Split Pair

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

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
00	35	150
01	35	89
02	43	301
03	52	24
04	42	107
05	44	141
06	43	104
07	53	21
08	34	42
09	39	33
10	38	31
11	54	40
12	36	69
13	39	175
14	52	12
15	39	423
16	40	323
17	44	30
18	57	108
19	51	32

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
20	47	4
21	48	2
22	51	19
23	39	43
24	49	29
25	36	0
26	47	1
27	44	262
28	42	47
29	36	9
30	38	118
31	40	88
32	49	26
33	36	158
34	36	193
35	41	75
36	46	65
37	37	99
38	44	49
39	27	447

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
40	47	10
41	36	61
42	40	63
43	34	160
44	46	37
45	36	377
46	33	153
47	45	179
48	40	59
49	37	234
50	46	64
51	40	182
52	40	209
53	45	11
54	41	185
55	41	3
56	44	81
57	47	16
58	33	183
59	29	114

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
60	41	27
61	42	145
62	50	93
63	38	51
64	50	149
65	42	105
66	34	431
67	39	220
68	36	297
69	35	84
70	36	5
71	33	35
72	38	72
73	38	240
74	38	95
75	38	41
76	40	15
77	50	17
78	46	74
79	33	269

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
80	41	18
81	55	39
82	54	171
83	44	28
84	51	45
85	43	36
86	42	23
87	39	221
88	47	34
89	38	101
90	42	14
91	47	13
92	37	538
93	43	8
94	43	347
95	35	135
96	37	56
97	44	25
98	30	22
99	35	6

Expected frequency of each Pick 3 pair is 41 (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 North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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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