Study 03 · Shape
Individual numbers are fair. Combinations are not shaped the way people pick them. 10,397 drawings of the current 5/36 game.
The individual numbers in Fantasy 5 are fair — we tested that. Combinations are a different matter. A drawing produces five numbers at once, and the shape those five make together follows very regular patterns. Not because the machine prefers them, but because there are far more ways to build a spread-out combination than a bunched one.
Add the five numbers. Across 10,397 drawings the average is 92.5, and about 69% of all drawings land between 70 and 115. A ticket summing to 30 or to 160 is not forbidden; it is just something the game has almost never done.
| Where a drawing's sum falls | Sum |
|---|---|
| Lowest 10% of drawings | 64 or less |
| Lower quarter | 77 or less |
| Middle (half above, half below) | 93 |
| Upper quarter | 108 or more |
| Highest 10% of drawings | 121 or more |
Five numbers split into odd and even, and into the low half (1–18) and high half (19–36). Perfectly lopsided tickets are rare in real drawings:
| Split | Odd numbers | Low numbers (1-18) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 of 5 | 2.3% | 2.4% |
| 1 of 5 | 14.3% | 15.1% |
| 2 of 5 | 33.8% | 32.2% |
| 3 of 5 | 32.5% | 33.3% |
| 4 of 5 | 14.8% | 14.5% |
| 5 of 5 | 2.3% | 2.5% |
Two-three or three-two accounts for 66.3% of drawings by odd/even and 65.5% by high/low. All five on one side happens about 4.7% of the time.
| Shape | Share of real drawings |
|---|---|
| Highest minus lowest is 20 or more | 79.3% |
| Highest minus lowest is 10 or less | 1.6% |
| Contains two numbers in a row (e.g. 14-15) | 46.6% |
| Contains three or more in a row | 4.7% |
| Touches three or four of the tens groups | 84.6% |
Note the fourth line especially. Nearly half of all real drawings contain a consecutive pair, which is the pattern people most often avoid on purpose because it "doesn't look random".
Woozul scores a combination's shape against these distributions and reports it as a percentile of the real record: 1-2-3-4-5 scores 0, a typical real drawing scores in the 40s or 50s. It is a way to see whether a ticket looks like the kind of combination the game actually produces. It is a description of the past, not a prediction, and a well-shaped ticket wins exactly as often as a badly shaped one.
Florida Lottery official Fantasy 5 results, 13,254 draws from 1989-05-02 to 2026-08-10, validated for completeness and tagged by matrix era and draw type. The figures on this page are produced by a script that runs against that record, so they can be recomputed from the same source at any time. Last updated September 22, 2026.
What this does not mean. Nothing on this page improves anyone's chance of winning. Every draw is independent, and a fair game cannot be beaten by studying it. We publish these results because they are true, including the parts that work against our own product.