Method

How this works

Every figure here is computed from the State of New York's published archive. Nothing on this site is a prediction, and nothing here improves the odds of a ticket.

What a triple is

A triple is a drawing where all three digits match: 000, 111, 222, 333, 444, 555, 666, 777, 888, 999. Ten of the 1,000 possible outcomes. Each has a 1 in 1,000 chance per drawing, so some triple is expected about once in every 100 drawings.

The claim we do not make

A triple absent for thousands of draws has exactly the same 1-in-1,000 chance tonight as one drawn yesterday. Drawings have no memory. Where this site ranks by "longest absent", that is a statement about the record — not a forecast, and not an edge.

What the drought meter shows instead is how the current wait compares to that triple's own history of waits. That is a real measurement of how unusual the present stretch is, and it is the honest version of the question.

What the record shows

Across 25,677 drawings, the ten triples have landed 303 times. A fair game predicts about 257 — the observed count sits 2.9 standard deviations above that.

That gap is worth stating plainly rather than hiding, but it is not evidence of a beatable bias. It spans 46 years, several generations of drawing equipment, and it is a figure we went looking for — all of which inflate the chance of finding something that looks unusual. Treat it as a curiosity about the archive, not a strategy.

Source

State of New York Open Data

Dataset hsys-3def — https://data.ny.gov/Government-Finance/Lottery-Daily-Numbers-Win-4-Winning-Numbers-Beginn/hsys-3def

Game rules and schedule

New York Lottery — Numbers

What is on record

Evening results begin in September 1980; midday only in December 2001. Any comparison between the two has to account for that, or midday looks artificially quiet.

How numbers are stored

The source publishes results as integers, so 003 arrives as 3 — about 10% of all rows, and from the 2020s onward it does this inconsistently, with padded and unpadded values in the same era. Every value is zero-padded on import and stored as text, so 000 is never mistaken for 0.

Two dates, 27 January 1982 and 14 February 1985, each carry two different evening results. The draw key includes a sequence number so both survive.

Definitions

Draws absent

Drawings elapsed since the triple last landed. On the combined view both drawings count, so a day adds two.

Typical wait

Mean drawings between that triple's consecutive appearances.

Longest drought

The largest completed gap in the record.

Drought meter

Current wait as a share of that triple's longest recorded wait.

Percentile

Share of that triple's past waits shorter than the current one.

Freshness

Formula version

1.0.0

Statistics computed

2026-08-22T03:00:59.266Z

Last import

2026-08-22T03:00:59.009Z

Rows quarantined

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Upstream corrections recorded

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The same payload is available as JSON at /api/methodology.

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