Pick 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Pick 5 draws 5 numbers from 40. This page counts 1,182 draws under the current rules, from August 17, 2023 to November 10, 2026, sold in Nebraska.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,182 draws each ball should turn up about 148 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 125 and 170. 1 of the 40 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 39 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	170	typical	36
10	168	typical	3
26	168	typical	1
24	165	typical	7
27	160	typical	12
5	158	typical	4
3	157	typical	2
14	157	typical	2
12	156	typical	13
15	156	typical	11
33	156	typical	19
34	156	typical	1
13	155	typical	2
28	155	typical	0
4	154	typical	11
9	152	typical	10
11	151	typical	0
19	150	typical	16
16	148	typical	9
6	147	typical	0
7	147	typical	4
37	147	typical	13
36	146	typical	3
18	145	typical	1
21	145	typical	0
32	144	typical	2
17	141	typical	1
25	141	typical	0
2	139	typical	5
23	139	typical	24
1	138	typical	6
22	138	typical	7
40	138	typical	43
31	137	typical	2
39	137	typical	42
35	136	typical	4
30	134	typical	1
20	131	typical	14
38	130	typical	8
29	118	below the band	23

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
November 10, 2026	6 · 11 · 21 · 25 · 28
November 9, 2026	17 · 18 · 26 · 30 · 34
November 8, 2026	3 · 13 · 14 · 31 · 32
November 7, 2026	10 · 13 · 21 · 28 · 36
November 6, 2026	5 · 7 · 17 · 34 · 35
November 5, 2026	2 · 14 · 18 · 25 · 26
November 4, 2026	1 · 14 · 17 · 21 · 28
November 3, 2026	5 · 13 · 22 · 24 · 31
November 2, 2026	6 · 14 · 28 · 34 · 38
November 1, 2026	16 · 18 · 28 · 32 · 35

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, 7,914 Pick 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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