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Midday and Evening Draws: Why Some Games Draw Twice a Day

Take 5, Numbers, Win 4 and Fantasy 5 each run two separate draws a day. What that means for a ticket, and why the two results are unrelated.

Published 8 September 2026 · the numbers in this guide are read live from our archive.

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The short answer. A midday draw and an evening draw of the same game are two separate draws. Different balls, different result, no connection. If you check an evening ticket against the midday numbers you will get the wrong answer, and this is the single most common mistake with these games.

The pairs

GameYou pickDrawnDraw time (ET)
Take 5 Midday 5 numbers from 1–39 Daily 2:30 PM ET
Take 5 Evening 5 numbers from 1–39 Daily 10:30 PM ET
Numbers Midday 3 digits, each 0–9 Daily 2:30 PM ET
Numbers Evening 3 digits, each 0–9 Daily 10:30 PM ET
Win 4 Midday 4 digits, each 0–9 Daily 2:30 PM ET
Win 4 Evening 4 digits, each 0–9 Daily 10:30 PM ET
Fantasy 5 Midday 5 numbers from 1–36 Daily 1:05 PM ET
Fantasy 5 Evening 5 numbers from 1–36 Daily 11:15 PM ET

Four games on this site run twice a day. Three of them are in New York and one is in Florida:

Why we keep them as separate games

It would be simpler to publish one Take 5 page with two results a day on it. We do not, for one reason: the moment two draws share a page, someone reads the wrong row. A separate page per draw means the date and the draw always agree, the archive is unambiguous, and each draw has its own frequency history rather than a merged one that describes neither.

It also matters for the analysis. Merging a midday and an evening archive would double the apparent sample size while mixing two independent sequences, which makes any pattern found in it meaningless.

What that means for the time in the Gulf

A midday draw in New York at 2:30 PM Eastern lands at 10:30 PM in Dubai. The evening draw at 10:30 PM Eastern lands at 6:30 AM the next morning. So a "midday" result is an evening result where you are, and an "evening" one arrives with breakfast. Each game page on this site carries a live clock for its own region, which is there precisely so you never have to do that arithmetic.

Where to check. All of these appear on the New York lottery results page and the Florida lottery results page, with the midday and evening draws listed as separate entries so there is nothing to misread.

Live results for the games in this guide

Every draw below is recorded here after it is published, with a dated archive behind it.

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Frequently asked questions

No. They are two entirely separate draws with their own balls and their own results. Nothing in the midday result carries any information about the evening one.
Only if you bought it for both. A ticket names the draw it is for, and this is the most common reason someone checks their numbers against the wrong result.
Because they are. Keeping one archive per draw means a midday result can never be mistaken for an evening one, and each has its own frequency history.
In New York, Numbers, Win 4 and Take 5 draw at 2:30 PM Eastern. In Florida, Fantasy 5 draws at 1:05 PM Eastern. Both are late evening in the Gulf.
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