NY Numbers and Win 4 Guide: Four Digit Draws a Day

What are New York Numbers and Win 4?

They are New York’s two digit games. Instead of drawing numbered balls from one large set, each game draws a single digit for each position, from 0 to 9, and starts again from all ten digits for the next position. That is why the same digit can appear twice or even in every position.

Most recent Numbers Midday draw on record: 18 Oct 2026 — 0, 4, 0.

Most recent Numbers Evening draw on record: 18 Oct 2026 — 4, 5, 9.

Most recent Win 4 Midday draw on record: 18 Oct 2026 — 2, 2, 3, 6.

Most recent Win 4 Evening draw on record: 18 Oct 2026 — 7, 7, 3, 2.

Four rows, four archives. Each one on this site is kept separately, because a midday Numbers result and an evening Numbers result are no more related than a Numbers result and one from another state. Our midday and evening guide goes into why that separation matters; here it is enough to know which of the four your ticket belongs to.

Why is New York’s Pick 3 called Numbers?

Florida calls its digit games Pick 3 and Pick 4, California calls them Daily 3 and Daily 4, and people who move between states search for those names. New York uses its own: Numbers for three digits and Win 4 for four. The format is the same kind of game, so anything you know about Pick 3 or Pick 4 elsewhere carries over, but the results are New York’s alone.

The name to be careful with is Pick 10. In New York that is not a digit game at all: you choose ten numbers from 1 to 80 and twenty are drawn. Someone searching for a New York “pick” result can land on it by mistake. If your ticket has three or four single digits on it, you want Numbers or Win 4, not Pick 10.

What time are the Numbers and Win 4 draws where I live?

Converted for 19 October 2026. US clocks change in March and November, which moves every US draw by an hour against the Gulf and India; this table is recalculated every time the page loads.

For readers in the Gulf and South Asia, the practical version is short. In the UAE the 2:30 PM ET draws come in late in your own evening, on the same date; in Pakistan and India they land close to midnight, so check the table above for which side of it they fall on today. The 10:30 PM ET draws come in overnight everywhere and are waiting in the morning, dated the previous day in New York. That second point matters when you look a result up: a ticket for Tuesday evening is found under Tuesday, even though you are reading it on Wednesday.

How should I read a result that starts with zero?

Zero is a digit like any other, so it can be drawn in the first position. Exactly one tenth of all possible results start with it: 100 of the 1,000 Numbers results and 1,000 of the 10,000 Win 4 results. Results like 0-8-6 or 0-0-4-1 are therefore routine.

The trouble comes when a result is written as a number rather than as digits. Spreadsheets, messages and some data feeds drop leading zeros, so 0-8-6 turns into 86 and 0-0-4-1 into 41. Those look like two-digit numbers and are easy to check against the wrong thing. Our archive stores every result at its full length for exactly this reason. When you copy a result anywhere else, keep it as digits, and when someone sends you a short result, pad it back with zeros at the front before checking your ticket.

What are the odds in Numbers and Win 4?

Numbers Evening top-prize odds: there are 1,000 possible 3-digit results, from 000 to 999, so an exact-order (straight) play is 1 in 1,000. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.

Win 4 Evening top-prize odds: there are 10,000 possible 4-digit results, from 0000 to 9999, so an exact-order (straight) play is 1 in 10,000. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.

Those are straight odds, for the exact order. Midday and evening draws have identical odds because the format is identical. A box play, which accepts your digits in any order, changes the figure depending on whether your digits are all different or include a repeat. The counting for every case, including the 24-way, 12-way, 6-way and 4-way boxes in Win 4, is set out in our straight vs box guide, so it is not repeated here.

How do I check a Numbers or Win 4 ticket?

1. Read three things off the ticket: the game (Numbers or Win 4), the draw date, and midday or evening.
2. Open that draw’s page — for example Numbers Evening or Win 4 Midday — and find the New York date.
3. Write the result out at full length, with any leading zeros.
4. Check it the way the ticket was played: position by position for a straight, or by sorting both sets of digits for a box.
5. Confirm any possible win with the New York Lottery or an authorised retailer. A results page is not a validation.

Is there a pattern across four draws a day?

Four results a day build a long archive quickly, and a long archive is exactly where the eye starts finding streaks. The same digit showing in three draws running, or a number repeating a week later, looks meaningful and is not: each draw starts from all ten digits again, with no memory of the last one. A particular three-digit result has the same 1 in 1,000 chance tonight whether it came up yesterday or has never come up. Our lucky numbers page publishes the digit counts for all four draws, with the test that shows choosing from them does no better than chance.