The short answer. Pennsylvania Cash 5 draws five numbers from 1 to 43 every evening at
6:59 PM Eastern, the earliest evening draw of any American game we publish. There is no bonus ball and the
order does not matter, so one line matching all five is a 1 in 962,598 chance.
Because it draws seven nights a week, the date printed on the ticket matters more here than in any weekly game.
How does Pennsylvania Cash 5 work?
Five balls come out of a set numbered 1 to 43 and none of them goes back in, so no number can appear twice in
one result. A line on the ticket is five numbers from that same range, and it is judged purely on how many of
them turn up among the five drawn. Position is irrelevant. There is no second ball, no separate pool and no
add-on to remember, which makes this one of the simplest games we publish to check.
Pennsylvania Cash 5 at a glance | Game | You pick | Drawn | Draw time |
|---|
| Pennsylvania Cash 5 |
5 numbers from 1–43 |
Daily |
6:59 PM ET |
Most recent Pennsylvania Cash 5 draw on record: 25 Oct 2026 — 11, 18, 26, 38, 40.
The draw time is the detail worth noticing. Almost every American game we carry draws in the last two hours
before midnight Eastern, in a crowded stretch that takes in both multi-state jackpots and most of the state
draws. Cash 5 goes before seven in the evening, on its own, which makes its numbers the first of the American
night to reach a phone anywhere.
What are the odds of winning Pennsylvania Cash 5?
Pennsylvania Cash 5 top-prize odds: there are 962,598 ways to choose 5 numbers from 1–43, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 962,598. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.
Of every game here that draws five balls, nothing else, and does it every night, Cash 5 draws from the widest
range, so its top prize is the hardest of that set to reach. Put beside the six-number games it shares a hub
with, though, it sits in another league altogether. The table below is built from our own game records when the
page loads, sorted shortest odds first.
The six games on our US State Lottery hub, shortest odds first
| Game | You pick | Drawn | Top-prize odds per line |
|---|
| Georgia Fantasy 5 |
5 from 1–42 |
Daily |
1 in 850,668 |
| Pennsylvania Cash 5 (this guide) |
5 from 1–43 |
Daily |
1 in 962,598 |
| New Jersey Pick 6 |
6 from 1–46 |
Monday, Thursday and Saturday |
1 in 9,366,819 |
| Michigan Lotto 47 |
6 from 1–47 |
Wednesday and Saturday |
1 in 10,737,573 |
| Ohio Classic Lotto |
6 from 1–49 |
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday |
1 in 13,983,816 |
| Illinois Lotto |
6 from 1–50 |
Monday, Thursday and Saturday |
1 in 15,890,700 |
Adding a sixth ball to the line is what opens that gap. New Jersey Pick 6, the
shortest of the six-number games on the hub, is roughly 9.7 times longer
per line than Cash 5. Neither shape is the better game and neither is generous; they are built to different
scales, and the prizes behind them are set by the state lottery rather than by the arithmetic.
What does a draw every single night change?
There is no draw night to remember
A twice-weekly game gives you two dates a week to think about. Cash 5 gives you seven, which sounds like more
work and is actually less: there is no schedule to memorise, because the answer to “did it draw last
night?” is always yes. Whichever morning you look, a fresh result is waiting.
The top of the page is nearly always newer than your ticket
This is the real trap of a nightly game. Open the results page two days after a draw and the numbers at the top
belong to a different night, not to the ticket in your hand. Read the date first and the numbers second. Our
archive keeps every recorded Cash 5 draw under its own Pennsylvania date, newest at the top, so the row you
need is always there to be scrolled to.
Seven draws a week is not seven times better
More draws mean more entries, not better ones. Each night is a fresh, independent event carrying the same odds
as the last, so playing nightly repeats one chance more often at the cost of spending more often. Nothing
accrues from the nights that did not win.
When does the Cash 5 result reach the UAE and India?
Pennsylvania Cash 5 draw time where you are | Game | Local draw time | UAE (GST) | India (IST) | Pakistan (PKT) | UK |
|---|
| Pennsylvania Cash 5 |
6:59 PM ET |
2:59 AM (next day) |
4:29 AM (next day) |
3:59 AM (next day) |
10:59 PM |
Converted for 26 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.
An early-evening Eastern draw lands in the small hours in the Gulf and shortly before dawn in India, and it does
so well ahead of the American games that draw closer to midnight. If you follow several US draws, this is the one
already published while the rest of the night is still running. The full American schedule in Gulf and Indian
time, including how the US clock change in March and November shifts all of it by an hour, is laid out in our
guide to US lottery draw times in India and the UAE.
How do I check a Pennsylvania Cash 5 ticket?
- Read the draw date printed on the ticket. On a nightly game this is the step people skip, and it is the one
that decides everything else.
- Open the Pennsylvania Cash 5 results page and find that exact
date, rather than reading the row at the top.
- Count how many of your five numbers appear in the result for that date. Order does not count, and a number
written in a different position on the ticket still matches.
- Treat each line on the ticket separately. Matches never combine across two lines.
- If a line looks like a winner, confirm it with the Pennsylvania Lottery or an authorised retailer before
doing anything else. We record results; we cannot validate a ticket.
The same method works for any game here, and the general version of it, including what to do when a result has
not appeared yet, is on our how to check results page.
Do past Cash 5 numbers tell you anything about tonight?
No, and a nightly game is where that question gets asked most, because the archive grows so fast that patterns
seem to leap out of it. None of them survives testing. Every draw starts from the same forty-three balls with no
memory of the last one, so a number missing for a month is not owed an appearance and one that came up last night
is not warmed up. Our lucky numbers page publishes the frequency counts anyway,
next to the measurement that found our own number scoring no better than picking at random, and says so plainly.
If waiting for the result is the tedious part, the bell on the game’s own page subscribes you to Cash 5
alone, so one alert arrives when a new draw is recorded and nothing else does. Every other state game we carry
sits together on the US State Lottery results hub, and readers following
American draws from this side of the world may find
checking US lottery results from the UAE useful alongside it.
We are a results archive. This site records each Pennsylvania Cash 5 draw after it is published. We do not
sell tickets, we are not the Pennsylvania Lottery, and nothing here confirms a win. Ticket prices, prize tiers,
claim rules and whether you can take part at all are set by the operator and depend on where you are, so ask them.
