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Delaware Play 3 Due Sums

These tables show, for every Delaware Play 3 sum and root sum, how many draws it has gone without hitting and how that compares with its historical average gap.

What this page means, in plain words: add the three digits of a draw together and you get its sum (4-1-9 → 14). Keep adding until one digit is left and you get its root sum (14 → 1+4 = 5). Some players track how long each sum has gone without appearing — "draws out" is that count, and "average gap" is how often it normally shows up. A sum that is out longer than its average gap is what players call "due" — but remember, every draw is random and nothing is ever actually due.

Due Root Sums

Root sum	Draws out	Average gap	Times due
1	2	8.77	1165
2	8	9.03	1021
3	5	9.27	1027
4	1	8.96	1181
5	11	9.07	1066
6	10	9.14	1033
7	3	8.85	1177
8	0	9.13	1081
9	21	8.87	1197

All sums 0–27

Sum	Draws out	Hits (365d)	Average gap	Times due
0	2044	0	727.68	9
1	70	1	316.4	37
2	329	1	171.57	54
3	48	7	95.91	97
4	127	9	59.68	169
5	196	12	48.26	212
6	27	14	36.14	261
7	51	17	27.98	341
8	0	23	21.33	474
9	21	37	17.58	585
10	7	32	15.78	630
11	8	48	14.32	706
12	12	42	14.37	680
13	1	48	13.56	736
14	11	66	13.34	747
15	10	46	13.79	751
16	3	39	13.99	738
17	4	36	16.76	606
18	33	34	18.31	532
19	2	21	21.05	460
20	17	27	28.42	360
21	5	11	35.83	293
22	77	13	47.1	216
23	47	9	67.59	153
24	19	9	109.21	93
25	273	4	171.12	58
26	72	1	330.74	29
27	460	1	777.61	9

Skip Grid — the digit ledger

Where this chart comes from: long-time Pick 3 players track draws by hand in ruled notebooks — one row per draw, one column per digit, crossing off digits as they hit and counting the misses in between. This is that same ledger, kept for you automatically. The count in a blank cell is the digit's skip — how many draws in a row it has missed at that point.

Skip Grid (✗ = digit hit that draw)

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