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Pick 3 players can double the fun with Double Draw

February 29, 2024 Posted by NC Lottery at 4:28 PM
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The Pick 3 Double Draw promotion that gives you extra chances to win returns on Friday.

Every night in March, Pick 3 players will get two chances to win a prize if the Yellow Ball gets drawn.

At least one Double Draw is guaranteed to occur every week. But there could be lots more Double Draws if the Yellow Ball keeps popping up.

If you watch the evening drawings, during the month of March you’ll see two draw machines for Pick 3 drawings each night. At the start of the drawing, we’ll pick a ball from the Double Draw machine. If the Yellow Ball is drawn, a second Pick 3 drawing will take place immediately following the first.

Prizes will be paid on both sets of numbers drawn.

That’s why we call it Double Draw.

If a White Ball is drawn, the next evening’s drawing will take place with one fewer White Ball until a Yellow Ball is drawn.

Want even more extra chances to win in Double Draw? Then don’t forget to add the Fireball for the evening drawing. When you add Fireball to your Pick 3, you get an extra drawn number for more combinations to match and win.

This March will be the first time a Double Draw promotion has occurred since the Fireball became part of the Pick 3 game. A Double Draw will give you Double Fireballs too.

Good luck to all you Pick 3 players out there!


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3/20/2024 08:32 - Jamie H.

How can you guarantee a result (a yellow ball being drawn at least once a week) in a game of chance?NC Lottery
Hi, Jamie! The Double Draw machine starts off with 7 balls - 6 white balls and the yellow ball. When a white ball is drawn, it is removed from the machine, so the next night has one less white ball. With 7 total balls, the yellow ball is guaranteed to be drawn at least once every 7 days. Once the yellow ball is drawn, the machine is reset with all balls put back in and the process restarts, and a white ball is removed each night one is drawn until the yellow hits!

3/04/2024 06:07 - Lorraine C.

what times are the drawings?NC Lottery
Hi, Lorraine! The Double Draw, and potential second Pick 3 drawing if the yellow ball is drawn, occur after the evening Pick 3 drawing around 11:22 PM each night!

3/04/2024 04:38 - Angela A.

I really like some of the suggestions, but I have the one that would make a whole lot of sense! Just put more winning tickets in the runs and let's forget all this overhead and work you all are putting into this second chance all together. I feel like entering all this stuff is a second or third job! LOL. NCEL is not giving nothing for free, so the money made from the games are creating the second chance prizes, because at the end of the day people just trying to WIN! There is no more fun playing, because I see players all the time just scratch the barcode and see if the ticket is a WINNER or LOSER.

3/03/2024 07:03 - Michael H.

How about allowing lucky rewards points to be used to purchase powerball, mega millions or cash 5 tickets. Example 50 points equals 1 dollarsNC Lottery
Thanks for sharing that suggestion, Michael! At this time, we don't have any plans to allow purchases using Lucke-Rewards points, but the future is full of possibilities!

3/03/2024 07:02 - benjamin j.

Are you ever going to let players use Lucky Rewards points to purchase tickets like Powerball, Cash 5, or other draw games?NC Lottery
Thanks for your comment, Benjamin! Right now, we don't have any plans for allowing ticket purchases using Lucke-Rewards points. However, the folks in charge of decisions like that read player comments like these, so this could be a possibility in the future!

3/02/2024 09:14 - Deborah P.

I have tried and tried, and I just don't understand any of this. I am not going to be playing for a while. Maybe if I stop for a while, I have been losing way too much. Same with the scratch off tickets. I buy several and still loose. Guess I need to really stop. I really don't play that much. LOL

3/02/2024 07:12 - Darlene E.

Why not change the way we check past draws on 3/4 number? The way now is way too much time. Have it back like the Cash 5 is. These changes are confusing. Thanks

3/01/2024 09:51 - Angela A.

If my number don't come this month with all these chances, then I believe the NCEL will lose my donations for a while as I have lost a lot of money over the last few months and no Big WIN! SHOW ME THE MONEY!

3/01/2024 08:05 - shirley b.

NCEL what is wrong? Something has to be wrong as to why there have been no trips I ps. According to your own stats a trip is way overdue. Find out why?NC Lottery
Hi, Shirley! The odds of a particular triple coming out in a North Carolina drawing are the same as in a Pick 3 drawing anywhere else - exactly 1 in 1,000. Those odds never change, no matter how recently or long ago a triple came out. We love it when popular numbers come up at random, because that means our players win a bunch of prizes! But for draw games to be fair, every number has to have the same chance of being drawn. We hope your favorite number hits soon!

3/01/2024 06:05 - Darlene E.

Great something NEW!!!

3/01/2024 05:33 - Roger K.

I want to know what happened to the other mascot that had the sign on him? This one here looks like a glitter big foot!

3/01/2024 01:11 - William C.

How about adding Double Play to Cash 5 online.It's very simple to add it.Simple as Power Play on Powerball or Fireball on Pick 3 and Pick 4.Going to a retailer gets old. Thank you.NC Lottery
Thanks for this feedback, William! We've heard from many of our players that this is something they're interested in seeing, and we hope to be able to offer Cash 5 add-ons through Online Play in the future!

3/01/2024 12:49 - Melanie b.

I'm excited and ready!!

2/29/2024 11:30 - shirley b.

Thanks NCEL for the double draw

2/29/2024 10:52 - nancy m.

How can we go back and see which numbers were played in a certain month and year?NC Lottery
Hey there, Nancy! Unfortunately at this time, there is not a way to find results from a specific month/date, but you can toggle through pages of past draw results using the numbers at the top of the Past Draws page here: https://nclottery.com/pick3-past.

2/29/2024 10:05 - joanie m.

More chances to Win

2/29/2024 04:55 - Alfie R.

That’s why we call it Double Draw.

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