Fantasy 5 (California) Lottery Results & Winning Numbers

• Players have 180 days to claim their prizes.
• Instead of a really small value, the lowest prize is a free California Fantasy 5 ticket.
• Prizes above $599, which is beyond the average reward for the second prize, are taxed.
• The minimum jackpot prize is $50,000.

Fantasy 5 (California) Second Chance Draw

The Second Chance draw is an optional $5 entry that allows the player to enter a secondary drawing for 3x $10,000 and 12x $1,000 prizes through a special code, 5 business days after. Each $5 entry offers a code to participate in that draw. There are 15 winners every week.

How to Play Fantasy 5 (California)

1. It is necessary to purchase at local retailers in California because California’s Fantasy 5 is not currently available online.
2. Players have numbers from 1 to 39 and must choose five numbers from them. It is also possible to let the machine select them through the method known as Quick Pick.
3. If you want, it is possible to pay an extra and participate in the Second Chance draw too.
4. After paying for the tickets, make sure that you have bookmarked this page to check the California Fantasy 5 results later.

Fantasy 5 (California) Ticket Cost

• $1 per ticket
• Other lottery games available on the lottery websites we recommend might have bundle discounts.

Advanced Draws

California Fantasy 5 allows the purchase of tickets in advance for the next draws, on top of the possibility of purchasing several tickets at once for the same draw. In total, players can purchase and participate in up to 12 draws in advance. That way, you only need to check the California Fantasy 5 results.

The Top 5 Biggest Fantasy 5 (California) Winners

1. $935,000 – Almost $1 million in a Fantasy 5 game is an incredible mark achieved on January 5, 2020. The winner most probably did everything right because no one figured anything about him or her.
2. $762,087 – Almost four years before the current biggest jackpot, the huge sum of $762,087 was paid to someone from Clovis in Fresno Country. It was sold at the local 7-Eleven, and the California Fantasy 5 results came on the draw of October 28, 2016.
3. $729,505 – The third biggest California Fantasy 5 jackpot remained the highest prize ever paid for a total of 24 years. More surprisingly, that huge amount was paid not long after the creation of the lottery game on February 13, 1992.
4. $704,555 – Someone from Carmichael won a bit more than $700,000 on July 2, 2016, entering history as one of the biggest jackpots ever paid by the California Fantasy 5 game.
5. $610,882 – Soeung Thach, from Los Angeles, is the only known name among the biggest jackpots ever won in California Fantasy 5. His life changed on the October 1st draw. He simply decided to purchase a ticket when he was out getting gas, and $5 in tickets resulted in more than $600,000.

Fantasy 5 (California) History

Believe it or not, differently from most popular lottery games that are always changing their mechanics, California Fantasy 5 remains the same. Brought to the public in 1992, it never changed the way it works.