Hit 5 number frequency, odds and draw history

Hit 5 draws 5 numbers from 42. This page counts 2,207 draws under the current rules, from September 6, 2020 to September 21, 2026, sold in Washington.

How often each number has been drawn

Across 2,207 draws each ball should turn up about 263 times. Random variation alone spreads that out, and about 19 in 20 balls land between 232 and 293. 2 of the 42 balls fall outside it and chance alone would put about 2 there, so this is an ordinary result. 40 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	294	above the band	22
29	286	typical	1
3	284	typical	14
4	283	typical	3
30	282	typical	5
11	281	typical	6
41	281	typical	8
14	275	typical	5
40	275	typical	2
1	274	typical	1
23	274	typical	38
18	273	typical	7
38	273	typical	4
22	272	typical	2
24	271	typical	0
34	271	typical	13
31	270	typical	8
10	267	typical	2
28	266	typical	3
19	265	typical	2
35	265	typical	3
15	264	typical	1
8	262	typical	1
20	261	typical	7
32	260	typical	11
12	255	typical	26
27	255	typical	26
6	254	typical	0
16	253	typical	17
17	252	typical	0
5	251	typical	2
7	251	typical	1
25	249	typical	15
42	248	typical	6
37	247	typical	5
13	246	typical	4
36	246	typical	5
33	245	typical	0
9	241	typical	6
39	241	typical	9
2	240	typical	9
26	232	below the band	0

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
September 21, 2026	6 · 17 · 24 · 26 · 33
September 20, 2026	1 · 7 · 8 · 15 · 29
September 19, 2026	5 · 10 · 19 · 22 · 40
September 18, 2026	4 · 7 · 17 · 28 · 35
September 17, 2026	7 · 13 · 22 · 26 · 38
September 16, 2026	14 · 30 · 33 · 36 · 37
September 15, 2026	5 · 9 · 11 · 33 · 42
September 14, 2026	5 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 22
September 13, 2026	22 · 28 · 31 · 41 · 42
September 12, 2026	2 · 6 · 26 · 31 · 39

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, 4,320 Hit 5 draws in all, ships inside the app and works with no connection at all.

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