FAST 5 is drawn on Thursday at 9 PM GST, not Saturday. How to check a five number line, prove you have the right night, and read the archive.
Published 7 November 2026 · the numbers in this guide are read live from our archive.
Advertisement
The short answer. FAST 5 is drawn on Thursday at
9:00 PM Gulf Standard Time, and the five numbers from 1 to 42 appear on our
FAST 5 results page within minutes of the draw closing. If you are
waiting for it on a Saturday, you are waiting on the wrong night: the game moved, and the old night
is still repeated all over the internet.
Which night is FAST 5 drawn?
The one night FAST 5 is drawn, taken from the game registry rather than from prose.
Thursday, and that single fact causes more wasted searching than anything else about this game. FAST 5
spent part of its life as a Saturday draw. When a game changes night, the change propagates through
official channels quickly and through everything else slowly, so pages, forwarded screenshots and
half-remembered habits keep pointing at the old evening for a long time afterwards.
Our archive can be counted rather than argued with. Of the
112 recorded FAST 5 draws we hold, the newest
20 are an unbroken run of
Thursday draws, and the
92 rows behind that run are dated on the night the
game used to be drawn on. The move is a thing you can see in the dates rather than a
claim you have to take on trust, which is also why nothing on this site states the draw night in a
sentence somebody typed once: every page reads it from the registry, and a tool flags any stored draw
whose weekday disagrees with it.
The hour does not move with the night. Nine in the evening in Dubai is 10:30 PM in India, 10:00 PM in
Pakistan and the early hours of Friday in the Philippines, so a reader in Manila wants a result dated
Thursday while their own phone says Friday. The
times by country guide and the
draw time page convert all of it live.
Where does the Thursday result appear?
The FAST 5 result card, carrying the drawn numbers and the date of the draw they belong to.
Most recent FAST 5 draw on record: 5 Nov 2026 — 16, 19, 25, 39, 40.
How do I check a five-number FAST 5 line?
Five numbers is the shortest check of the four Emirates games, and the steps below are ordered so that
the two ways of getting a wrong answer are ruled out before any comparing starts.
Confirm the game. Read the game name at the top of the card, and glance at the
highest drawn number. Above 42 and it is not FAST 5, whatever the heading on a
forwarded screenshot claimed.
Confirm the date. It should be the Thursday your line was entered for. Any other
date, and the draw you care about either has not happened or is further down the page.
Match your five against the drawn set. Take your numbers one at a time and look for
each in the drawn five. Order is irrelevant in FAST 5, and there is no bonus ball to account for.
Count your matches. The total is what decides everything: none through five, one
number per tick, no partial credit for being adjacent to a drawn number.
Read the tier only after counting. The structure is described on our
prize tiers page; the operator sets what each tier pays.
Verify anything that looks like a win. This site is an archive of results and
cannot confirm or pay a prize. The official record does both.
A reader who followed FAST 5 before the move has a Saturday reflex, and the result page will happily
show them a Thursday draw on a Saturday evening without the date looking odd at a glance. Anyone who
took up the game recently has the opposite problem: they search, land on an old page that says
Saturday, and conclude the Thursday numbers they just read belong to something else.
The other five-number game
WILD 5 also draws five numbers, which makes the two cards nearly identical at a glance. The ceiling is
the tell, because FAST 5 stops at 42 and WILD 5 does not, and the weekday is the
second tell. Our comparison of the two works through what the
different pools do to the odds.
Expecting the name to mean something
FAST refers to the game, not the schedule. There is one draw a week, and it is the first of the four
consecutive Emirates nights: Thursday, then EASY 6 on Friday, WILD 5 on Saturday and MEGA 7 on Sunday.
Readers who follow all four need four separate checks, not one.
How do I read the FAST 5 archive?
Winning entries in the recent FAST 5 draws that carry a published winner count.
The FAST 5 past results page is one row per draw, newest first, with
the date, the five numbers, the winner count and the prize total for that draw. Two of those columns are
regularly misread. The winner count is every entry that won something in that draw, added together
across tiers, not the number of people who matched all five. And a dash in either figure column means
the figure was never published, which is not the same statement as a zero.
The archive is also where the night change is visible rather than asserted. Step back far enough and the
dates stop being Thursdays. That is history, not an error, and it is the reason the registry rather than
a paragraph decides what every page on this site says about the draw night. Each date in the list opens
that draw on its own page, with the draws either side of it linked, so working back through a run of
weeks takes one click each.
Can the past Thursdays tell you anything about the next one?
How often each FAST 5 number has been drawn, with the even-chance line marked.
No. The chart shows how often each of the 42 numbers has come up, and the honest way
to read it is as a picture of randomness rather than a league table. The bars are uneven because real
random counting is uneven; a perfectly flat chart after a few dozen draws would be the suspicious
outcome, not this one. Every FAST 5 draw starts from the same set, unaffected by the one before it.
The full table, with how many draws each number is waiting on, is on
the FAST 5 frequency page, and
our explainer on frequency data goes
through what it can and cannot support. We also tested number scoring against hundreds of past draws and
published the result on the lucky numbers page: it matched chance, which is
the only thing a fair draw can be matched by.
Which leaves a Thursday night with a short routine. Open the page after nine, check the name and the
date, count five, and leave the patterns to people who sell them.
An independent results archive. We record FAST 5 results and the figures published with them. We
are not Emirates Draw, we sell no entries, and we cannot confirm or pay a prize. Whether you can take
part depends on where you are, which only the operator can answer. Play only with money you can afford
to lose.
Live results for the games in this guide
Every draw below is recorded here after it is published, with a dated archive behind it.
Thursday, at 9:00 PM Gulf Standard Time. FAST 5 was drawn on Saturday earlier in its life, and plenty of pages elsewhere still say so, which is why the older part of our own archive carries Saturday dates and the recent run does not.
The draw closes at 9:00 PM in Dubai, which is 10:30 PM in India and 10:00 PM in Pakistan, and the five winning numbers reach our FAST 5 results page within minutes. The winner count is published separately and usually later.
Both games draw five numbers, so count the balls and it does not help. Read the highest number instead: FAST 5 draws from 1 to 42 and WILD 5 reaches higher, so a number above 42 rules FAST 5 out. The weekday settles it too, since FAST 5 is Thursday and WILD 5 is Saturday.
A line can match anywhere from none of the five to all five. Matching all five with one line is 1 in 850,668. Which lower match counts pay anything, and what they pay, is set by the operator rather than by us.
No. The name is branding, not frequency. FAST 5 is drawn once a week like the other three Emirates games, and it is the one that opens the run of four draw nights from Thursday to Sunday.
On the FAST 5 past results page, which lists every draw we hold, newest first, with each date opening that single draw on its own page. Older entries there are dated on a Saturday because that is the night the game used to be drawn on.
Sponsored
Every draw we publish
Results for 36 games, updated after every draw
Emirates Draw, the two US multi-state jackpots, and every New York and Florida game —
each with its own dated archive.
