Cash 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Cash 5 draws 5 numbers from 45. This page counts 1,120 draws under the current rules, from October 18, 2023 to November 10, 2026, sold in Virginia.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 1,120 draws each ball should turn up about 124 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 103 and 145. 4 of the 45 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 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	154	above the band	1
25	147	above the band	8
42	144	typical	5
15	143	typical	3
16	137	typical	8
37	136	typical	16
43	135	typical	7
7	132	typical	3
20	132	typical	1
24	132	typical	2
33	132	typical	2
36	132	typical	4
21	131	typical	9
38	131	typical	33
1	130	typical	1
4	130	typical	11
44	129	typical	0
2	128	typical	4
27	128	typical	11
9	127	typical	3
39	127	typical	6
22	126	typical	7
45	125	typical	7
5	124	typical	8
8	124	typical	2
23	124	typical	3
41	124	typical	0
19	120	typical	13
28	120	typical	12
34	120	typical	5
12	119	typical	7
26	119	typical	16
10	117	typical	1
31	117	typical	10
35	117	typical	30
3	116	typical	2
6	116	typical	1
29	116	typical	4
30	116	typical	0
40	114	typical	0
17	111	typical	10
11	104	typical	6
13	104	typical	8
18	98	below the band	0
14	92	below the band	36

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
November 10, 2026	18 · 30 · 40 · 41 · 44
November 9, 2026	1 · 6 · 10 · 20 · 32
November 8, 2026	3 · 8 · 24 · 33 · 44
November 7, 2026	7 · 9 · 15 · 23 · 33
November 6, 2026	2 · 24 · 29 · 36 · 40
November 5, 2026	6 · 24 · 33 · 34 · 42
November 4, 2026	1 · 11 · 23 · 32 · 39
November 3, 2026	6 · 12 · 22 · 43 · 45
November 2, 2026	5 · 11 · 13 · 16 · 25
November 1, 2026	8 · 10 · 15 · 21 · 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, 18,324 Cash 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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