The short answer. Florida Lotto is a six-number jackpot game run by the Florida
Lottery. You pick six numbers from 1–53, and six are drawn every Wednesday and Saturday at 11:15 PM
US Eastern. There is no bonus ball. In the UAE and India the result arrives on Thursday and Sunday
mornings.
How does Florida Lotto work?
Florida Lotto format and schedule | Game | You pick | Drawn | Draw time |
|---|
| Florida Lotto |
6 numbers from 1–53 |
Wednesday and Saturday |
11:15 PM ET |
Florida Lotto is the plainest of the big US jackpot games, and that is its main attraction for anyone
checking a ticket from a distance. One set of fifty-three balls, six drawn, and your line is judged on
how many of its six numbers are among them. No second drum, no coloured ball, no extra number drawn at
the end. A results line for this game is six numbers and nothing else.
That matters when you compare it with games that look similar. New York Lotto also draws six, but adds a
Bonus. Powerball and Mega Millions draw five plus a ball from a second pool. Readers used to those games
sometimes look for a seventh number on a Florida Lotto result and assume it is missing. It is not there
because the game does not have one.
If a Florida Lotto ticket shows an optional add-on printed beside the main numbers, that add-on is its
own feature with its own rules, set by the Florida Lottery. It does not change which six numbers are
drawn in the main game, and this guide covers the main draw only.
Most recent Florida Lotto draw on record: 7 Oct 2026 — 10, 31, 36, 43, 44, 48.
How do Florida Lotto odds compare with other six-number games?
Six-number games all work out their jackpot odds the same way: count the ways to choose six numbers from
the pool. What changes is the size of the pool, and small changes there have a large effect, because every
extra ball in the drum multiplies the number of possible lines. Four US games on this site use the plain
six-number shape, and they make a useful comparison.
The six-number jackpot games we publish | Game | You pick | Drawn | Draw time |
|---|
| Florida Lotto |
6 numbers from 1–53 |
Wednesday and Saturday |
11:15 PM ET |
| Jackpot Triple Play |
6 numbers from 1–46 |
Tuesday and Friday |
11:15 PM ET |
| New York Lotto |
6 numbers from 1–59 + Bonus 1–59 |
Wednesday and Saturday |
8:15 PM ET |
| Lotto Texas |
6 numbers from 1–54 |
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday |
11:12 PM ET |
Florida Lotto top-prize odds: there are 22,957,480 ways to choose 6 numbers from 1–53, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 22,957,480. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
Jackpot Triple Play top-prize odds: there are 9,366,819 ways to choose 6 numbers from 1–46, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 9,366,819. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
New York Lotto top-prize odds: there are 45,057,474 ways to choose 6 numbers from 1–59, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 45,057,474. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
Lotto Texas top-prize odds: there are 25,827,165 ways to choose 6 numbers from 1–54, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 25,827,165. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
Florida Lotto sits near the shorter end of that group. New York Lotto, with six more balls in the drum, has jackpot
odds about 2.0 times longer. Jackpot Triple Play, Florida’s other
six-number game, uses seven fewer balls, and Florida Lotto’s odds per line are about
2.5 times longer than its. Those comparisons are per line. A Jackpot
Triple Play ticket carries three lines, which is explained in
our guide to all eight Florida draws.
The pattern is worth remembering when a game changes its format: moving the pool by even two or three
numbers moves the jackpot odds by a large fraction. It also explains why no amount of number-picking
technique narrows the odds. The only thing that changes them is the size of the drum, and that is set by
the lottery, not by the player. Our lucky numbers page publishes Florida Lotto
frequency counts and says plainly that they do not help.
What time is the Florida Lotto result in the UAE and India?
The Florida Lotto draw in your local time | Game | Local draw time | UAE (GST) | India (IST) | Pakistan (PKT) | UK |
|---|
| Florida Lotto |
11:15 PM ET |
7:15 AM (next day) |
8:45 AM (next day) |
8:15 AM (next day) |
4:15 AM (next day) |
Converted for 8 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.
At 11:15 PM Eastern, Florida Lotto is one of the last US draws of the night. That makes it one of the last
US results to reach the Gulf, landing after breakfast has started in the UAE and, on US summer time, at about a quarter to
nine in India, a little after the multi-state results and hours after New York Lotto. On a Thursday or Sunday morning, if you have
already seen the Powerball result, give Florida another few minutes.
One detail about the clock. Part of Florida sits in the Central time zone, but the Florida Lottery quotes
its draw times in Eastern time, and that is the time we use too. The Florida results pages carry a live
Eastern clock, so there is no need to wonder which half of the state a time refers to. When US clocks go
back in November, the draw keeps its 11:15 PM Eastern slot and moves an hour later on your clock; the
full list of US draw times in India and the UAE shows
every game side by side.
How do I check a Florida Lotto ticket from abroad?
- Make sure the ticket really is Florida Lotto. Jackpot Triple Play and Fantasy 5 are also Florida games
drawn at 11:15 PM Eastern, and all three are easy to confuse on a slip.
- Check the draw day. Florida Lotto draws only on Wednesday and Saturday; a Tuesday or Friday date points to
Jackpot Triple Play.
- Open the Florida Lotto results page and find the US date printed on
the ticket, remembering that it will be the day before the morning you are reading it.
- Count how many of your six numbers are among the six drawn. Order does not matter.
- Look up what that match count pays in the Florida Lottery’s own prize information; we do not
reproduce prize amounts.
- Confirm any winning ticket directly with the Florida Lottery before relying on it.
Step one is not a formality. Three Florida games share the same late draw time, and two of them draw six
numbers, so a ticket checked against the wrong page can look like a near miss or a win when it is neither.
All of them are listed separately on the Florida lottery results
page, and the Jackpot Triple Play results have their own
archive.
Results, not tickets. We are an independent results site. We are not the Florida Lottery, we do not
sell Florida Lotto tickets, and nothing on this page confirms a prize. Whether you can buy or claim from
where you are depends on where you are; ask the official operator. Play for fun, and within your means.
How does Florida Lotto compare with New York Lotto?
They are the two state-run six-number games our readers most often follow together, and they draw on the
same nights. The differences are the pool and the Bonus. Florida’s drum is smaller, which gives it
the shorter jackpot odds shown above, and it has no seventh ball. New York’s Bonus exists only to
decide its second prize, a mechanism explained in the
New York Lotto guide. On a Thursday or Sunday morning in the Gulf,
New York’s result is the first of the two to arrive and Florida’s is among the last.
