Florida Fantasy 5 Number Generator

Fantasy 5 is a draw game run by the Florida Lottery, the state agency created by the Florida Public Education Lottery Act of 1987, whose proceeds go to the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund. It went on sale on April 28, 1989 as Florida's third draw game, after Florida Lotto and Cash 3, and the first drawing took place on May 2, 1989.

The game has changed shape several times. It started as 5 of 39 with drawings on Tuesdays and Fridays. Mondays were added in August 1990, the field shrank to 5 of 26 with a $50,000 top prize in April 1993, drawings ran Monday to Friday from January 1994 and every night from April 1999. The current 5-of-36 matrix arrived on July 16, 2001, together with the $100,000 top prize, the free ticket for 2 matches and the first rolldown rule. EZmatch was added on March 20, 2006, the rolldown was extended to the 3-of-5 level on September 15, 2008, and a second daily drawing at 1:05 p.m. began on March 20, 2023, when the game also got its current logo.

By the Lottery's own count to the end of 2022, Fantasy 5 had sold $9.97 billion in tickets, paid $5.02 billion in prizes and sent $3.88 billion to education.

The Florida Lottery holds two Fantasy 5 drawings every day of the week. In each one, five balls are drawn from a single set numbered 1 to 36; the numbers become official once the Draw Manager and the Accountant certify them. There is no bonus ball, so a line wins on how many of its five numbers appear among the five drawn, in any order.

Terminals sell Fantasy 5 from 6:00 a.m. to midnight ET, depending on the store's hours. On the slip you mark MID, EVE or BOTH; leave it blank and the ticket goes to the next drawing, and BOTH prints two separate tickets. A ticket bought after a cut-off moves to the next drawing of that type.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Florida Lottery, Fantasy 5.

One Fantasy 5 play costs $1 per drawing. A paper slip has ten panels, A to J, each one a separate play, and each panel has its own Quick Pick box that lets the terminal fill some or all of the five numbers. Two extra boxes buy ready-made bundles for the next drawing: $5 Quick Picks prints five random lines on one ticket, $10 Quick Picks prints ten.

EZmatch costs $1 more per play. Five EZmatch numbers from 1 to 36 print under your Fantasy 5 numbers, each with a prize amount; every EZmatch number that equals one of your own numbers pays its amount at once, so one ticket can win up to five times, with a top EZmatch prize of $500. It works like a scratch-off: the outcomes come from preset pools of 420,000 plays that refill automatically. A ticket with EZmatch cannot be canceled.

Advance Play repeats the same numbers for up to 30 consecutive days, which is up to 60 drawings when BOTH is marked. On an Advance Play ticket, EZmatch covers the first play only. Other routes to a ticket: a digital play slip built in the Florida Lottery app and scanned as a barcode, a Lottery vending machine, telling the clerk your numbers, or "Play it Again" on a ticket up to 60 days old. Fantasy 5 is also part of the $5 Grouper and $10 Grouper Super Sampler packages. The Florida Lottery does not sell tickets online, by mail or by subscription; they come from its more than 13,000 retailers in the state.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Emergency Rule 53ER26-8, FANTASY 5.

There are C(36,5) = 376,992 possible lines. Of those, 155 match exactly four winning numbers (5 ways to pick four of the winners times 31 losing numbers), 4,650 match three and 44,950 match two, so 49,756 lines win something: 1 in 7.58, the figure the Florida Lottery publishes. You can rerun these numbers in the lottery odds calculator.

Fantasy 5 is pari-mutuel: half of each drawing's net sales becomes the prize pool, split 62% to the top prize, 10% to 4-of-5 and 28% to 3-of-5, and each pool is divided equally among that level's winners. Cash prizes other than the top prize are rounded down to the nearest 50 cents. Every Fantasy 5 cash prize is paid in one payment; there is no annuity option.

Unlike a jackpot game, Fantasy 5 does not carry an unwon top prize to the next drawing. If no line matches all five numbers, the whole top prize pool rolls down into the 4-of-5 pool of the same drawing. Each 4-of-5 winner can receive at most $555; whatever is left above that cap rolls down again and is shared by the 3-of-5 winners. Only if a drawing has no 3-of-5 winner at all is the 3-of-5 pool carried forward, into the next drawing's top prize pool.

The rolldown first applied to 4-of-5 alone in 2001 and has reached the 3-of-5 level since September 2008. It is a payout rule, not a way to pick numbers: the chance of matching four is still 1 in 2,432.21 whatever happens to the top prize.

The Florida Lottery changed the EZmatch prize table for both Fantasy 5 and Florida Lotto on January 30, 2026. The minimum prize is now $3 and there are new $25 and $40 levels. Per pool of 420,000 plays:

EZmatch winnings are separate from the drawing: they can be cashed straight away, and if you claim before your drawing has taken place you receive a continuation ticket with the same Fantasy 5 numbers.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Florida Lottery, EZmatch.

Draw-game prizes, Fantasy 5 included, must be claimed within 180 days of the winning drawing; EZmatch prizes within 180 days of the first draw date printed on the ticket. Up to $599 can be cashed at any Florida Lottery retailer. From $600 to $249,999 you go to a Lottery district office or mail the ticket there with a Winner Claim Form; a single-winner Fantasy 5 top prize normally falls in this band. Prizes of $250,000 or more are paid at Lottery Headquarters in Tallahassee.

According to the Lottery's FAQ, it reports winnings of $2,000 and above to the IRS, withholds 24% federal tax on prizes over $5,000 when you give a valid Social Security number, and 30% on all prizes without one. Florida winners cannot stay anonymous: name, city, game, date and amount are released on request, but home addresses and phone numbers stay confidential. A free-ticket prize mailed in from outside Florida is paid as a $1 check.

Copy the five numbers into one panel of a Fantasy 5 slip, mark MID, EVE or BOTH, and hand it to the clerk or feed it to a vending machine; in the Florida Lottery app you can tap the same numbers into a digital slip and show its barcode at the counter. Aim for 12:45 p.m. ET for the midday drawing or 10:55 p.m. ET for the evening one. More on the general routine in how to play a quick pick.

You must be 18 or older to buy a Fantasy 5 ticket in Florida, and no generated line has a better chance than any other (why). If playing has stopped being fun, Florida's Problem Gambling Helpline is 833-752-9947 (playwise.org); more in play responsibly.