Georgia Fantasy 5 Number Generator

Fantasy 5 is the game the Georgia Lottery Corporation calls Georgia's exclusive jackpot game, sold at Georgia Lottery retailers and to Players Club members online. The Georgia Lottery itself was created by voters in November 1992 to raise money for education and sold its first tickets on June 29, 1993.

The game has changed shape over the years. In 2003 the lottery's site listed jackpot odds of 1 in 575,757, which is a 5-of-39 field, with prizes only for matching three, four or five. By 2010 the playslip still ran from 1 to 39, a match of two already paid a free Quik Pik, and the instant add-on was called eZmatch. In early October 2015 the field grew to 1 to 42 and the add-on was renamed Cash Match, now written Ca$h Match. The largest Fantasy 5 jackpot in the game's history, $2,488,184, was won on May 9, 2025.

Lottery profits pay for the HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally) Scholarship Program and Georgia's Pre-K Program. According to the Georgia Lottery, more than $16 billion has gone to more than 2.25 million HOPE recipients, and more than $9 billion has sent more than 2.2 million four-year-olds to Pre-K. Prizes nobody claims are also returned to these two programs.

Fantasy 5 has one drawing every day of the week, with no midday draw. Under the game rules, it is held at the studios of WSB-TV in Atlanta at approximately 11:34 p.m. Eastern Time. Retail and online sales for that night stop at 10:45 p.m., and a Multi-Draw ticket always begins with the next available drawing.

The draw is physical, not computer-generated: the rules call for one mechanical drawing machine and one ball set, both chosen at random before the drawing, to select five winning numbers out of 42. Ticket order does not matter, so 3-11-19-27-40 wins the same as 40-27-19-11-3.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Georgia Lottery.

Each Fantasy 5 play costs $1, and one ticket can carry up to 10 plays. Quik Pik lets the terminal fill some or all of your five numbers. Multi-Draw repeats the same numbers for up to 14 consecutive drawings at $1 per play per draw; the run starts with the next drawing and cannot skip a night. Fantasy 5 tickets cannot be canceled once printed.

Ca$h Match costs an extra $1 per play. Separate Ca$h Match numbers print on the ticket, and any of them that match your own Fantasy 5 numbers win an instant prize from $1 to $500, up to five times on one ticket. A retailer can pay the prize at once; if you cash it before the drawing, you receive an exchange ticket that still enters the Fantasy 5 draw. The official overall odds of a Ca$h Match prize are 1 in 2.96.

You can also buy Fantasy 5 on galottery.com or in the Georgia Lottery app with a Level 2 iHOPE account, which requires age and identity checks and your physical presence in Georgia at the time of purchase.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Georgia Lottery.

There are 850,668 ways to choose 5 numbers from 42. Of those, 185 combinations match exactly four of the winning numbers, 6,660 match three and 77,700 match two, which gives the official odds above once rounded. About 50% of each drawing's sales goes into the prize pool, and each tier's share is divided equally among the plays that won it, rounded down to the dollar, with a $1 minimum. So the payout for four or five numbers depends on how many tickets were sold and how many people matched. The odds calculator shows the same arithmetic for any matrix.

Jackpots start at $125,000. When nobody matches all five, the money set aside for the top prize rolls into the next night's jackpot, so it keeps climbing until a ticket hits. There is no rolldown and no cap in the published rules. Two or more jackpot winners on the same night split the top-prize pool equally.

Fantasy 5 has no annuity option. The rules say every Fantasy 5 prize is paid in a lump sum, in a single payment.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Georgia Lottery game rules, section 4.06.

You have 180 days from the drawing date to claim. Winning Fantasy 5 tickets can be cashed from 5 a.m. on the business day after the drawing. Prizes of $600 or less can be paid by any Georgia Lottery retailer in cash, check or money order. Larger prizes go to Georgia Lottery headquarters in Atlanta, a district office, or by mail to P.O. Box 56966, Atlanta, GA 30343, with a claim form, photo ID and proof of your Social Security number.

At headquarters and district offices, prizes from $601 to $249,999 are generally paid the same day. The airport kiosks at Hartsfield-Jackson take claims up to $25,000. Online wins of $600 or less go straight to your iHOPE account. Federal and state income tax is withheld from prizes over $5,000, and state-owed debts over $100 are deducted.

Checked: 2026-11-04, source: Georgia Lottery, How to Claim.

Mark the five generated numbers in one of the ten play areas (A to J) on a Fantasy 5 playslip, or type them into the Players Club purchase screen. If you would rather let the Georgia Lottery terminal choose instead, mark the Quik Pik box. Either way, buy before 10:45 p.m. and sign the back of a paper ticket. More on how to play a quick pick.

You must be 18 or older to buy a Georgia Lottery ticket. The Georgia Lottery's responsible-gaming page points players to the Georgia Crisis and Access Line, 1-800-715-4225 or text 988, and Players Club accounts offer deposit limits and self-exclusion. A random pick has the same chance as any other set of five, see why no tool predicts a draw and playing responsibly.