Florida Pick 2, 3, 4 and 5 Guide: One Draw Time, Four Games

What are Florida’s Pick games?

They are one idea at four lengths. You choose a string of digits, two to five of them depending on the game, and the draw produces a string of the same length, each position drawn separately from all ten digits. The result is read like a combination lock, left to right.

Most recent Pick 2 Evening draw on record: 19 Oct 2026 — 9, 1.

Most recent Pick 3 Evening draw on record: 19 Oct 2026 — 0, 6, 9.

Most recent Pick 4 Evening draw on record: 19 Oct 2026 — 1, 4, 5, 5.

Most recent Pick 5 Evening draw on record: 19 Oct 2026 — 8, 0, 1, 9, 1.

Florida also holds a midday draw of each Pick game. This site records the evening draws, which is why every label here says Evening. If your ticket is for a midday draw, it must be checked against Florida’s midday result, not against anything on these pages.

How much harder does each extra digit make it?

Exactly ten times. Adding a position adds ten possibilities for every result that already existed, so the count of possible results multiplies by ten with each step. That is the whole difference between the four games, and the table puts numbers on it.

Pick 5 therefore has 1,000 times as many possible results as Pick 2. The last column shows the other side of the ladder: the more digits a game has, the more ways different digits can be rearranged, so a box covers many more orders in the longer games. Which play types Florida offers for each game, and what they pay, is set out in its own rules.

What does a box cover in Pick 2 and Pick 5?

Our straight vs box guide works through three- and four-digit numbers in detail. The two ends of Florida’s ladder are worth doing here, because they behave differently.

Pick 2 is the simplest case. Two different digits, such as 3 and 8, can only be written two ways, 38 and 83, so a box covers two results. A double such as 44 has one order, so there is nothing to box. Ten of the 100 possible results are doubles.

Pick 5 is where the counting gets interesting, because five digits allow more kinds of repeat. Five different digits can be arranged 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 120 ways. Each repeated digit divides that by the number of ways its copies could be swapped among themselves: a pair divides by 2, a triple by 6, four of a kind by 24.

The right-hand column adds up to every possible Pick 5 result exactly once, which is a good check that the counting is right. It also shows something most people do not expect: a Pick 5 result with at least one repeated digit is more common than one without. Only 30,240 of the 100,000 possible results use five different digits. A repeat in tonight’s Pick 5 is the usual case, not a curiosity.

What is the Fireball, and what else trips people up?

When do the Florida Pick results reach the Gulf and India?

Converted for 20 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.

A 9:45 PM Eastern draw is an early-morning result across the Gulf and South Asia, dated the day before in Florida. All four arrive together, and the Florida results page lists them side by side with the state’s other games.

The Pick draws are also the first of Florida’s late results each night. The evening Fantasy 5 draw follows at 11:15 PM ET, so if you follow both, the Pick numbers will already be waiting when the Fantasy 5 result is still to come. Because the United States moves its clocks in March and November and the Gulf does not, the local times in the table shift by an hour twice a year; it is recalculated every time the page loads, so it is always the one to trust over memory.

How do I check a Florida Pick ticket?

1. Note the game from the number of digits on the ticket, and the draw date and time printed on it.
2. Make sure it is an evening ticket. A midday ticket needs Florida’s midday result.
3. Open that game’s page, for example Pick 4 or Pick 5, and find the Florida date.
4. Compare according to the play type on the ticket: position by position for a straight, sorted digits for a box. Leave the Fireball out unless the ticket bought it.
5. Take any possible win to the Florida Lottery or an authorised retailer to confirm it.

Every one of these draws is independent. Digits do not run hot or fall due, and the frequency counts on our lucky numbers page are published next to a test showing that choosing from them does no better than chance. For Florida’s ball games, see the Florida Fantasy 5 guide.