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 Wednesday, May 22, 2013 with 245 as the latest North Carolina Pick 3 number. Just in case, the front pair of this number is 24, back pair, 45, and split pair, 25.

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	151
01	35	90
02	43	302
03	52	25
04	42	108
05	44	142
06	43	105
07	53	22
08	34	43
09	39	34
10	38	32
11	54	41
12	36	70
13	39	176
14	52	13
15	39	424
16	40	324
17	44	31
18	57	109
19	51	33

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
20	47	5
21	48	3
22	51	20
23	39	44
24	50	0
25	36	1
26	47	2
27	44	263
28	42	48
29	36	10
30	38	119
31	40	89
32	49	27
33	36	159
34	36	194
35	41	76
36	46	66
37	37	100
38	44	50
39	27	448

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
40	47	11
41	36	62
42	40	64
43	34	161
44	46	38
45	36	378
46	33	154
47	45	180
48	40	60
49	37	235
50	46	65
51	40	183
52	40	210
53	45	12
54	41	186
55	41	4
56	44	82
57	47	17
58	33	184
59	29	115

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
60	41	28
61	42	146
62	50	94
63	38	52
64	50	150
65	42	106
66	34	432
67	39	221
68	36	298
69	35	85
70	36	6
71	33	36
72	38	73
73	38	241
74	38	96
75	38	42
76	40	16
77	50	18
78	46	75
79	33	270

Pair	times drawn	Last seen
80	41	19
81	55	40
82	54	172
83	44	29
84	51	46
85	43	37
86	42	24
87	39	222
88	47	35
89	38	102
90	42	15
91	47	14
92	37	539
93	43	9
94	43	348
95	35	136
96	37	57
97	44	26
98	30	23
99	35	7

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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