The short answer. Pick 10 is a New York Lottery game played like keno. You choose ten
numbers from 1 to 80, and every night at 8:30 PM Eastern twenty numbers are drawn from those same 80.
What matters is how many of your ten are among the twenty, called your catch. The top prize needs all
ten.
How does Pick 10 work?
Nearly every other game on this site works the same way round: you pick a few numbers, the draw produces
the same number of balls, and you hope yours are the ones drawn. Pick 10 reverses the proportions. The
draw is twice the size of your ticket. Out of 80 numbers, twenty are drawn, and your ten are compared
against all twenty. Catching all ten means every one of your numbers landed somewhere inside that larger
set.
That format is usually called keno, and it changes how a result should be read. There is no single
“winning line” to copy onto a ticket, because no ticket could ever hold all twenty drawn numbers.
The twenty are a net, and the question for each ticket is how many of its ten fell into it.
Pick 10, read from our catalogue | Game | You pick | Drawn | Draw time |
|---|
| Pick 10 |
10 numbers from 1–80 (20 are drawn) |
Daily |
8:30 PM ET |
One note on that table. Your ticket holds ten numbers, but the draw produces twenty, and it is those
twenty that our archive stores and that you check a ticket against.
Most recent Pick 10 draw on record: 15 Oct 2026 — 1, 3, 6, 14, 15, 17, 22, 23, 24, 28, 31, 36, 40, 45, 49, 53, 63, 68, 73, 77.
What are the Pick 10 odds of catching all ten?
Pick 10 top-prize odds: twenty numbers are drawn from eighty and you choose ten, so catching all ten of yours is 1 in 8,911,711. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
Where that figure comes from
There are 1,646,492,110,120 different groups of ten you could choose from 80. Of
those, the ones that win the top prize are the groups of ten that sit entirely inside the twenty drawn
numbers, and there are 184,756 of them. Dividing the first
figure by the second gives the odds above. Because twenty numbers are drawn rather than ten, many
different tickets can catch all ten on the same night, which is exactly what makes Pick 10 different from
a lottery with one winning line.
How many of my ten numbers will match?
Because the top prize is so rare, the more useful question for a Pick 10 player is what a normal night
looks like. The same counting gives the chance of catching exactly any number from zero to ten. The table
below is calculated from the format when the page loads, not typed in.
Chance of each catch for one Pick 10 ticket, one draw
| Numbers caught | Chance | About one ticket in |
|---|
| 10 of 10 |
under 0.1% |
8,911,711 |
| 9 of 10 |
under 0.1% |
163,381 |
| 8 of 10 |
under 0.1% |
7,384 |
| 7 of 10 |
0.16% |
621 |
| 6 of 10 |
1.15% |
87 |
| 5 of 10 |
5.14% |
19 |
| 4 of 10 |
14.73% |
7 |
| 3 of 10 |
26.74% |
4 |
| 2 of 10 |
29.53% |
3 |
| 1 of 10 |
17.96% |
6 |
| 0 of 10 |
4.58% |
22 |
A few things stand out. The average catch is 2.5 numbers, since
each of your ten has a twenty-in-eighty chance of being drawn, and the most common results are two and
three. Catching nothing at all is nearly as likely as catching five. And the chance falls away steeply from
six upwards, which is where the rarity of the top prize comes from.
Which catches win a prize, and how much each pays, is set by the New York Lottery rather than by the
arithmetic, so check its prize table for the current figures. The table above only tells you how often
each catch happens, and that part never changes while the format stays the same.
How do I check a Pick 10 ticket?
- Open the Pick 10 results page and find the draw with the date on your ticket, bearing in mind that the New York date is usually a day behind yours.
- Take your ten numbers one at a time and look for each among the twenty drawn. Working from your ten is quicker than working from the twenty, and position means nothing.
- Tick off each number found. The total is your catch, somewhere from zero to ten.
- Compare that catch with the New York Lottery’s prize table.
- If it looks like a winning catch, confirm it with the operator. Their record decides every prize.
Three slips that give the wrong catch
The first is stopping at ten. With twenty numbers on the page, it is easy to glance at the first half of
the list, see few matches and give up; your numbers can sit anywhere among all twenty. The second is
reading the draw as a line to be matched in order, as in a digit game. Pick 10 has no order at all, so a
number either appears among the twenty or it does not. The third is the date. New York’s evening is
already the next morning in the Gulf and India, and checking a ticket against the draw from the night
after it was meant for is the most common way to get a completely wrong count.
Choosing numbers works the same way in reverse. Spreading your ten across the 1–80 range, bunching
them together, or choosing birthdays and anniversaries makes no difference: every group of ten
has exactly the same chance, and the catch table above applies to all of them equally.
Pick 10 sits on the New York lottery results page alongside the
state’s other draws, and our overview of the New York
games shows where it fits among them.
What time is Pick 10 drawn in the UAE, India and Pakistan?
Pick 10 draw time where you are, converted for today | Game | Local draw time | UAE (GST) | India (IST) | Pakistan (PKT) | UK |
|---|
| Pick 10 |
8:30 PM ET |
4:30 AM (next day) |
6:00 AM (next day) |
5:30 AM (next day) |
1:30 AM (next day) |
Converted for 16 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.
At 8:30 PM in New York, Pick 10 is one of the earlier US night draws, so its result is among the first
waiting when the Gulf and South Asia wake up. It is drawn every day, including weekends, so there is a new
result each morning, always filed in our archive under the New York date, which is the evening before
yours. The table above recalculates the conversion on every visit, including the hour that moves when the
US changes its clocks.
Results, not tickets. We are an independent archive with no connection to the New York Lottery or
any other operator. We do not sell tickets or pay prizes. Whether you can play depends on where you are,
and prices and prizes are the operator’s to set; ask them.
Do twenty numbers a night make patterns easier to find?
They make them easier to see, which is not the same thing. Twenty numbers a night, every night, fills an
archive with streaks, pairs and gaps very quickly. Each draw is still independent: every group of twenty is
as likely as any other, and a number missing for a fortnight is not due. The catch table above is the same
on every night no matter what came before.
We publish Pick 10 frequency counts on the lucky numbers page with a plain
measurement next to them of how picking by frequency performed against random choice over past draws. It
performed the same.
