Cash 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Cash 5 draws 5 numbers from 43. This page counts 2,929 draws under the current rules, from November 4, 2018 to November 10, 2026, sold in North Carolina.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 2,929 draws each ball should turn up about 341 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 306 and 375. 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	383	above the band	0
4	379	above the band	1
13	367	typical	8
39	361	typical	7
22	359	typical	27
15	358	typical	23
19	358	typical	7
20	355	typical	20
33	355	typical	12
31	354	typical	5
1	353	typical	10
16	351	typical	3
6	350	typical	4
24	349	typical	9
12	347	typical	0
23	347	typical	2
7	346	typical	1
29	346	typical	1
30	345	typical	1
34	345	typical	3
2	343	typical	0
26	343	typical	14
36	342	typical	10
41	342	typical	8
21	341	typical	26
3	338	typical	1
32	338	typical	17
28	336	typical	7
35	335	typical	4
38	335	typical	0
8	330	typical	6
25	329	typical	3
18	326	typical	2
27	326	typical	4
9	325	typical	8
5	323	typical	4
37	322	typical	17
14	320	typical	2
10	316	typical	5
42	316	typical	7
17	310	typical	3
40	301	below the band	0
43	300	below the band	12

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
November 10, 2026	2 · 11 · 12 · 38 · 40
November 9, 2026	3 · 4 · 7 · 29 · 30
November 8, 2026	7 · 14 · 18 · 23 · 30
November 7, 2026	2 · 16 · 17 · 25 · 34
November 6, 2026	5 · 6 · 7 · 27 · 35
November 5, 2026	7 · 10 · 23 · 25 · 31
November 4, 2026	5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 31
November 3, 2026	19 · 28 · 35 · 39 · 42
November 2, 2026	9 · 13 · 18 · 29 · 41
November 1, 2026	19 · 24 · 25 · 30 · 38

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, 7,320 Cash 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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