Pick 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Pick 5 draws 5 numbers from 40. This page counts 1,132 draws under the current rules, from August 17, 2023 to September 21, 2026, sold in Nebraska.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,132 draws each ball should turn up about 142 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 119 and 164. 2 of the 40 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 38 balls are indistinguishable from random.

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 8.0 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
8	168	above the band	2
26	160	typical	17
24	159	typical	2
10	158	typical	7
27	155	typical	10
5	153	typical	2
33	152	typical	0
4	151	typical	5
12	151	typical	3
15	151	typical	21
3	149	typical	3
13	149	typical	5
11	146	typical	6
9	144	typical	19
14	144	typical	1
16	144	typical	4
28	144	typical	7
6	142	typical	6
34	142	typical	3
19	141	typical	1
37	140	typical	13
7	139	typical	0
32	139	typical	2
36	139	typical	16
40	137	typical	8
23	136	typical	0
18	135	typical	16
25	135	typical	1
39	135	typical	14
2	134	typical	0
1	133	typical	27
21	133	typical	6
22	133	typical	9
17	131	typical	9
31	131	typical	1
35	130	typical	11
30	128	typical	1
20	127	typical	0
38	126	typical	4
29	116	below the band	3

The odds

Matching all 5 is 1 in 658,008. 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 658,008
4 of 5	1 in 3,760
3 of 5	1 in 111
2 of 5	1 in 10
1 of 5	1 in 3

The rules have changed 1 time

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 Pick 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
April 3, 2003 to August 17, 2023	38	none
August 17, 2023 to today	40	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	2 · 7 · 20 · 23 · 33
September 20, 2026	14 · 19 · 25 · 30 · 31
September 19, 2026	5 · 8 · 24 · 31 · 32
September 18, 2026	3 · 12 · 25 · 29 · 34
September 17, 2026	2 · 16 · 20 · 23 · 38
September 16, 2026	3 · 4 · 7 · 8 · 13
September 15, 2026	6 · 7 · 11 · 21 · 31
September 14, 2026	8 · 10 · 14 · 16 · 28
September 13, 2026	5 · 7 · 11 · 38 · 40
September 12, 2026	5 · 13 · 17 · 22 · 33

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, 7,864 Pick 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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