Cash 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Cash 5 draws 5 numbers from 45. This page counts 1,070 draws under the current rules, from October 18, 2023 to September 21, 2026, sold in Virginia.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,070 draws each ball should turn up about 119 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 98 and 139. 5 of the 45 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 9.0 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
32	148	above the band	0
25	141	above the band	4
42	139	typical	5
15	135	typical	0
16	133	typical	1
37	131	typical	10
7	128	typical	0
38	127	typical	7
43	127	typical	10
24	125	typical	8
36	125	typical	7
2	124	typical	1
4	124	typical	0
20	124	typical	2
21	124	typical	3
27	124	typical	2
44	124	typical	1
9	123	typical	5
1	122	typical	16
33	121	typical	0
41	121	typical	8
8	120	typical	10
22	120	typical	13
39	120	typical	1
45	120	typical	2
5	118	typical	3
19	118	typical	4
23	118	typical	11
28	115	typical	8
12	114	typical	19
31	113	typical	17
35	113	typical	9
26	112	typical	5
34	112	typical	32
3	111	typical	5
10	111	typical	4
29	110	typical	9
40	110	typical	6
17	109	typical	7
6	107	typical	13
30	107	typical	27
13	101	typical	8
11	97	below the band	6
18	95	below the band	4
14	89	below the band	2

The odds

Matching all 5 is 1 in 1,221,759. 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 1,221,759
4 of 5	1 in 6,109
3 of 5	1 in 157
2 of 5	1 in 12
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
February 5, 1993 to October 28, 2020	34	none
October 28, 2020 to October 18, 2023	41	none
October 18, 2023 to today	45	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
September 21, 2026	4 · 7 · 15 · 32 · 33
September 20, 2026	2 · 7 · 16 · 39 · 44
September 19, 2026	2 · 14 · 20 · 27 · 45
September 18, 2026	5 · 20 · 21 · 27 · 44
September 17, 2026	4 · 10 · 18 · 19 · 25
September 16, 2026	3 · 9 · 16 · 26 · 42
September 15, 2026	7 · 11 · 19 · 26 · 40
September 14, 2026	5 · 17 · 36 · 38 · 45
September 13, 2026	13 · 17 · 24 · 28 · 41
September 12, 2026	7 · 9 · 11 · 29 · 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, 18,274 Cash 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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