Florida Fantasy 5 Guide: Two Draws a Day, 5 from 36

How does Florida Fantasy 5 work?

The format is about as plain as a lottery gets. Five balls are drawn from a set numbered 1 to 36, without replacement, so no number can appear twice in the same result. You choose five numbers; the order you write them in and the order the balls come out in are both irrelevant. What counts is how many of your five are among the five drawn.

Florida lists the two draws as one game at two times, and this site keeps them as two separate archives, because a midday result and an evening result have nothing in common but the name. The reasons we split them are set out in the midday and evening draws guide, so they are not repeated here.

Most recent Fantasy 5 Midday draw on record: 16 Oct 2026 — 4, 13, 25, 30, 34.

Most recent Fantasy 5 Evening draw on record: 16 Oct 2026 — 9, 14, 26, 28, 31.

What are the odds in Florida Fantasy 5?

The top-prize figure is a single count: how many different sets of five can be drawn from 36.

Fantasy 5 Evening top-prize odds: there are 376,992 ways to choose 5 numbers from 1–36, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 376,992. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.

The smaller matches are counted the same way, and the method is worth seeing once because it applies to every five-ball game. To match exactly three, three of your numbers must be among the five drawn and your other two must be among the 31 that were not. Count the ways of choosing each part, multiply them, and divide the total number of possible draws by the result.

Computed from the game’s format each time the page loads. Which of these matches pays a prize, and how much, is set by the Florida Lottery.

Two things stand out in that table. Matching two numbers is common, roughly once in every 8 lines, which is why a Fantasy 5 ticket so often shows a couple of hits. And each step up is a large jump: four matches is about 30 times rarer than three, and all five is rarer again by a factor of 155.

Of the 26 ball-drawn games we publish, including the Emirates draws, Fantasy 5 has the shortest top-prize odds. That is simply a consequence of drawing only five numbers from a pool of 36 with no second ball to match. It says nothing about any particular draw.

What time is Florida Fantasy 5 in the UAE, India and Pakistan?

The two draws land at very different times of day for readers in the Gulf and South Asia. The table converts both for today’s date, so it is right on either side of the US clock change.

Converted for 17 October 2026. US clocks change in March and November, which moves every US draw by an hour against the Gulf and India; this table is recalculated every time the page loads.

In practice the midday draw is an evening result in Dubai and a late-night one in India, while the evening draw belongs to the next morning. The evening draw also shares its 11:15 PM ET slot with Florida Lotto and Jackpot Triple Play, so on the nights those games draw, several Florida results arrive together the following morning. If you follow more than one Florida game, the Florida results page lists them all with a live Eastern clock.

Why do the midday and evening results so often share a number?

Readers who follow both draws notice that the evening result regularly repeats a number from lunchtime, and some take it as a sign the draws are linked. They are not; the overlap is what the arithmetic predicts. For the evening draw to share nothing with the midday one, all five of its numbers must come from the 31 that were not drawn at midday. That happens in 169,911 of the 376,992 possible draws, about 45% of the time. So on roughly 55% of days the two results will have at least one number in common, by chance alone. A day where they match completely is the same 1 in 376,992 as any single line winning the top prize.

How do I check a Florida Fantasy 5 ticket?

1. Look at the draw printed on the ticket: the date, and whether it is the midday or the evening draw.
2. Open that draw’s own page — Fantasy 5 Midday or Fantasy 5 Evening — and find the date in the archive.
3. Count how many of your five numbers appear anywhere in the five drawn. Position does not matter.
4. If your ticket has more than one line, count each line on its own. Matches on different lines do not add together.
5. Take any possible win to the Florida Lottery or an authorised retailer to confirm it. A results page is a reference, not proof of a prize.

The fourth step catches more people than it should. Three matches on one line and two on another is two separate results, not one line with five.

Does it help to follow both daily draws?

Following both doubles the number of results you see, not the chance attached to any one ticket. The midday draw does not warm up the evening one, and a number drawn at lunchtime is exactly as likely as any other that night. Our lucky numbers page keeps separate frequency counts for the two draws and shows, next to them, that choosing from those counts performed no better than random picks when tested. For how Fantasy 5 fits alongside Florida’s jackpot and digit games, see the Florida lottery games guide.