Hit 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Hit 5 draws 5 numbers from 42. This page counts 2,257 draws under the current rules, from September 6, 2020 to November 10, 2026, sold in Washington.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 2,257 draws each ball should turn up about 269 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 238 and 299. 1 of the 42 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 8.4 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
21	300	above the band	18
29	297	typical	2
41	290	typical	0
3	287	typical	9
4	287	typical	3
30	287	typical	8
11	285	typical	6
40	285	typical	4
38	283	typical	4
18	282	typical	17
22	282	typical	9
1	281	typical	5
14	281	typical	6
23	281	typical	5
24	280	typical	0
31	276	typical	7
19	274	typical	4
34	273	typical	19
10	271	typical	17
32	271	typical	1
35	270	typical	2
8	269	typical	0
28	268	typical	1
15	267	typical	2
20	266	typical	2
27	263	typical	3
6	262	typical	5
16	261	typical	0
5	259	typical	6
12	259	typical	9
7	257	typical	12
25	256	typical	3
17	255	typical	25
37	252	typical	0
42	251	typical	7
36	250	typical	22
13	247	typical	11
33	247	typical	42
2	245	typical	11
9	245	typical	16
39	243	typical	28
26	240	typical	6

The odds

Matching all 5 is 1 in 850,668. 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 850,668
4 of 5	1 in 4,598
3 of 5	1 in 128
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 Hit 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
March 19, 2007 to September 6, 2020	39	none
September 6, 2020 to today	42	none

The last ten draws

Draw date	Numbers
November 10, 2026	8 · 16 · 24 · 37 · 41
November 9, 2026	8 · 24 · 28 · 32 · 41
November 8, 2026	15 · 20 · 29 · 35 · 37
November 7, 2026	4 · 8 · 25 · 27 · 41
November 6, 2026	4 · 19 · 38 · 40 · 41
November 5, 2026	1 · 6 · 23 · 25 · 32
November 4, 2026	1 · 5 · 11 · 14 · 26
November 3, 2026	20 · 27 · 31 · 40 · 42
November 2, 2026	5 · 23 · 30 · 38 · 40
November 1, 2026	3 · 5 · 12 · 22 · 42

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, 4,370 Hit 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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