Take 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Take 5 draws 5 numbers from 39. This page counts 12,620 draws under the current rules, from January 17, 1992 to September 21, 2026, sold in New York.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 12,620 draws each ball should turn up about 1,618 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 1,543 and 1,693. 2 of the 39 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 37 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 7.8 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
18	1,697	above the band	11
6	1,694	above the band	7
7	1,684	typical	18
19	1,671	typical	1
31	1,671	typical	0
26	1,670	typical	0
15	1,669	typical	10
17	1,658	typical	14
22	1,645	typical	5
21	1,643	typical	0
3	1,631	typical	3
10	1,631	typical	3
20	1,626	typical	7
35	1,624	typical	6
37	1,622	typical	5
2	1,619	typical	5
16	1,618	typical	2
25	1,614	typical	2
23	1,612	typical	8
33	1,611	typical	1
34	1,608	typical	17
12	1,606	typical	2
8	1,605	typical	11
14	1,604	typical	5
32	1,602	typical	10
29	1,597	typical	1
38	1,597	typical	6
5	1,595	typical	4
11	1,593	typical	4
39	1,591	typical	19
27	1,590	typical	0
9	1,588	typical	27
36	1,587	typical	0
13	1,583	typical	17
4	1,581	typical	5
1	1,574	typical	1
24	1,574	typical	3
28	1,559	typical	3
30	1,556	typical	9

The odds

Matching all 5 is 1 in 575,757. 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 575,757
4 of 5	1 in 3,387
3 of 5	1 in 103
2 of 5	1 in 10
1 of 5	1 in 2

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	21 · 26 · 27 · 31 · 36
September 21, 2026	1 · 19 · 29 · 31 · 33
September 20, 2026	12 · 16 · 25 · 31 · 36
September 20, 2026	3 · 10 · 24 · 27 · 28
September 19, 2026	5 · 11 · 21 · 24 · 26
September 19, 2026	2 · 4 · 14 · 22 · 37
September 18, 2026	2 · 14 · 24 · 35 · 38
September 18, 2026	6 · 11 · 20 · 33 · 38
September 17, 2026	6 · 12 · 16 · 21 · 23
September 17, 2026	1 · 3 · 14 · 26 · 30

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, 12,620 Take 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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