Cash 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Cash 5 draws 5 numbers from 43. This page counts 2,879 draws under the current rules, from November 4, 2018 to September 21, 2026, sold in North Carolina.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 2,879 draws each ball should turn up about 335 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 300 and 369. 4 of the 43 balls fall outside it, where chance alone would put about 2. That is more than expected, and it is still not a pattern anybody can play: the drum has no memory of it.

This is the part worth reading twice. A number drawn more often than its neighbours has not become more likely, and the table below is sorted only because people expect it to be. The average wait between appearances for any one ball is 8.6 draws, so a gap several times that long is ordinary rather than overdue.

Ranked by how often each number has been drawn. Ranking is not a signal, it is what any fair draw looks like when you sort it.
Number	Times drawn	Against chance	Draws since last seen
11	375	above the band	30
4	371	above the band	12
13	361	typical	11
39	357	typical	7
22	355	typical	4
15	354	typical	10
33	351	typical	11
19	350	typical	6
20	350	typical	8
31	350	typical	5
1	347	typical	4
12	344	typical	8
16	344	typical	1
6	343	typical	23
24	342	typical	6
29	339	typical	2
30	339	typical	7
36	339	typical	2
2	338	typical	18
21	338	typical	3
41	338	typical	0
23	337	typical	5
26	337	typical	13
34	336	typical	0
3	334	typical	7
7	334	typical	0
28	331	typical	3
32	331	typical	1
38	329	typical	7
8	326	typical	8
18	324	typical	0
35	324	typical	2
9	323	typical	1
25	323	typical	4
37	320	typical	15
27	319	typical	0
5	313	typical	1
14	313	typical	1
10	311	typical	3
42	310	typical	9
17	305	typical	9
40	296	below the band	2
43	294	below the band	3

The odds

Matching all 5 is 1 in 962,598. Every tier is worked from the matrix directly, so these are exact rather than rounded figures copied from a leaflet.

Exact probabilities, worked from the matrix rather than quoted from anywhere.
Match	Chance per ticket
5 of 5	1 in 962,598
4 of 5	1 in 5,066
3 of 5	1 in 137
2 of 5	1 in 11
1 of 5	1 in 3

The rules have changed 2 times

Every boundary below was derived from the published draws themselves, by walking them in order and taking the first date no earlier matrix can account for, then checked against the announced change dates. A boundary can only ever be late, never early, which keeps every draw inside the era it is filed under.

This is why the counts above are scoped to the current rules. An all-time count for Cash 5 would mix in draws from a different drum, where balls added later never had a chance to appear, and those balls would read as permanently cold for a reason that has nothing to do with luck.

In effect	Main pool	Bonus pool
October 27, 2006 to May 17, 2016	39	none
May 17, 2016 to November 4, 2018	41	none
November 4, 2018 to today	43	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	7 · 18 · 27 · 34 · 41
September 20, 2026	5 · 9 · 14 · 16 · 32
September 19, 2026	29 · 35 · 36 · 40 · 41
September 18, 2026	5 · 10 · 21 · 28 · 43
September 17, 2026	1 · 22 · 25 · 27 · 35
September 16, 2026	7 · 23 · 31 · 32 · 36
September 15, 2026	1 · 14 · 19 · 24 · 35
September 14, 2026	3 · 22 · 30 · 38 · 39
September 13, 2026	8 · 12 · 19 · 20 · 23
September 12, 2026	7 · 17 · 36 · 41 · 42

Where this comes from

Every draw on this page came from the jurisdiction that ran it, and the matrix was derived from that published history rather than copied from a marketing page. The full archive, 7,270 Cash 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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