Take 5 Guide: New York's Twice-Daily 5 from 39 Game

How does Take 5 work?

Take 5 strips the lottery down to its simplest form. You choose five different numbers between 1 and 39. Five numbers are drawn from that same range of 39. You count how many of yours are among them, and that count decides whether a line has won anything. No second pool, no multiplier printed on the result, nothing to add up.

The two rows are two different draws. They share a format and a name, but each produces its own numbers and keeps its own archive on this site. The reasons we keep them apart, and why a midday result tells you nothing about the evening one, are set out in our explainer on midday and evening draws, so this guide concentrates on the game itself.

Most recent Take 5 Midday draw on record: 11 Oct 2026 — 4, 13, 14, 20, 37.

Most recent Take 5 Evening draw on record: 10 Oct 2026 — 6, 15, 26, 30, 31.

What are the Take 5 odds?

Take 5 Evening top-prize odds: there are 575,757 ways to choose 5 numbers from 1–39, so matching all of them with one line is 1 in 575,757. This is arithmetic on the game’s format, not a claim about any draw.

That number is small next to anything else in the United States that people in the Gulf usually follow. A single line of Take 5 is about 508 times more likely to match everything than a single line of Powerball, and about 45 times more likely than a line of Lotto Texas. The reason is entirely the pool. Five from 39 leaves far fewer possible lines than five from 69 plus a bonus ball, or six from 54.

That is the honest way to think about any lottery with a small pool. The odds are better than the headline jackpot games by a wide margin, and they are still far too long to treat a ticket as anything other than entertainment. Prizes for fewer than five matches are more common, and what each tier pays is set by the New York Lottery; check its own prize information rather than any figure you see repeated elsewhere.

How is Take 5 different from the other five-number games?

Florida and California each run a daily game with the same shape: five numbers, one pool, no bonus ball. The names are similar enough that results get mixed up, so it helps to know that the only real difference between them is the size of the pool, and that the pool alone sets the odds.

Where two games share a pool size, their odds are identical, however different the names, the states or the draw times. Where the pool is smaller, fewer lines are possible and each one is more likely. None of these games is connected to another: a Take 5 result in New York has nothing to do with a Fantasy 5 result on the same evening, even when the numbers happen to overlap.

What time is Take 5 drawn in the UAE, India and Pakistan?

Both draws are scheduled on New York time, and New York is eight or nine hours behind the Gulf depending on the season. The midday draw therefore arrives in the evening where you are, and the evening draw arrives the next morning.

Converted for 11 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.

For readers in India this produces a neat daily rhythm: the midday result shows up around bedtime, and the evening result is waiting with the morning tea. The awkward part is the date. The evening draw belongs to the New York calendar day, so the result you read on a Wednesday morning in Hyderabad or Sharjah is filed under Tuesday. If you are looking for a particular ticket, go by the date printed on it, which is the New York date, not the date on your phone. For every US game converted into Gulf and Indian time in one place, see US lottery draw times for India and the UAE.

How do I check a Take 5 ticket?

1. Look at the ticket for two things: the draw date and whether it is for the midday or the evening draw. A ticket can be for either, and checking against the wrong one is the classic mistake.
2. Open the matching page: Take 5 Midday results or Take 5 evening results.
3. Find the row with your draw date. Older draws are further down in the dated archive.
4. Count how many of your five numbers appear among the drawn five, in any position.
5. If the count looks like a winner, confirm it with the New York Lottery. Their record, not ours, decides any prize.

Both pages, along with every other New York draw we follow, are also listed together on the New York lottery results page, which carries a live Eastern-time clock so you can see whether today’s draws have happened yet.

Does a big archive make Take 5 more predictable?

Two draws a day adds up quickly: Take 5 builds a longer record in a year than a twice-weekly game does in several. A long record makes streaks and gaps easy to find, and it is natural to wonder whether they mean anything. They do not. Each draw is independent of every draw before it, and every one of the possible lines is as likely as every other, whatever came out at lunchtime or last week.

We do publish the frequency counts on our lucky numbers page, and next to them a test of how picking by those counts would have performed against picking at random across past draws. The two perform the same, and the page says so plainly.