Cash 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Cash 5 draws 5 numbers from 43. This page counts 6,804 draws under the current rules, from February 5, 2008 to September 21, 2026, sold in Pennsylvania.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 6,804 draws each ball should turn up about 791 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 738 and 844. 2 of the 43 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 41 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 8.6 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
8	857	above the band	2
7	843	typical	25
5	841	typical	0
30	838	typical	22
41	836	typical	4
32	831	typical	6
42	827	typical	2
13	823	typical	0
3	813	typical	1
17	811	typical	25
4	808	typical	14
19	807	typical	0
23	803	typical	7
29	801	typical	20
26	796	typical	15
1	792	typical	4
9	791	typical	13
31	789	typical	7
40	789	typical	5
15	788	typical	18
33	786	typical	3
37	785	typical	4
25	783	typical	9
10	781	typical	1
21	781	typical	2
34	781	typical	1
35	781	typical	16
36	780	typical	12
43	778	typical	3
24	776	typical	8
27	776	typical	10
2	775	typical	5
14	775	typical	13
12	772	typical	5
22	772	typical	0
11	771	typical	15
20	768	typical	12
18	765	typical	6
38	763	typical	0
16	756	typical	6
6	752	typical	9
39	743	typical	12
28	736	below the band	9

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 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 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
April 23, 1992 to February 5, 2008	39	none
February 5, 2008 to today	43	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	5 · 13 · 19 · 22 · 38
September 20, 2026	3 · 10 · 22 · 34 · 38
September 19, 2026	5 · 8 · 21 · 34 · 42
September 18, 2026	3 · 19 · 21 · 33 · 43
September 17, 2026	1 · 13 · 34 · 37 · 41
September 16, 2026	2 · 10 · 12 · 21 · 40
September 15, 2026	16 · 18 · 32 · 41 · 42
September 14, 2026	1 · 23 · 31 · 38 · 40
September 13, 2026	12 · 24 · 31 · 40 · 41
September 12, 2026	3 · 6 · 25 · 28 · 43

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, 11,185 Cash 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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