Cash 5

Cash 5 is a North Carolina lottery game, drawn Nightly, with tickets from $1. The odds of winning the top prize are 1 in 749,398. NumbersIntel tracks its full odds and prize structure, recent results and number-frequency history. Like every lottery game it is a negative-expected-value bet — played for entertainment, not investment.

How Cash 5 works

Cash 5 is a North Carolina draw game built around a top prize you win by matching all of the numbers drawn — about 1 in 749,398. That prize typically starts at a set minimum and rolls higher every drawing it goes unclaimed, which is how these games can build for weeks before someone finally hits them. It is drawn Nightly at $1 a play.

The lower prize tiers are far easier to hit and pay smaller, mostly fixed amounts, so most winning tickets never touch the top prize. NumbersIntel derives the odds for every tier from the game's published rules. Like every lottery game it is negative-expected-value by design; the higher the top prize climbs, the more a ticket is worth — but also the likelier that prize is to be split between multiple winners.

Our archive holds 7,282 Cash 5 draws going back to 2006, which powers the number-frequency statistics — the most and least common numbers, current hot and cold streaks, and the longest-overdue numbers. Those describe what has already happened; because each draw is independent, no number is ever truly ‘due.’

About this data

Every figure here comes from official lottery sources, refreshed after each drawing. We compute the odds from the game's published rules and, where the prize structure allows, the expected value of a ticket. See our methodology page for the full method, and the guides on expected value, how the odds work and whether hot numbers win.