For a long time this website only offered data for lottery scratchers tickets in Virginia. It’s where we live, it’s where we tested out our math. Now, we’ve added tools for you to explore the best scratchers odds in New York. Here you can find New York scratchers ranked by the best probability of winning a prize, using statistics from the New York Lottery website.
Just like with the New York scratch-off rankings, every day we gather data on the remaining prizes yet unclaimed posted on the official New York Lottery website. We crunch that data down to a ranking by scratcher games with the best probability of winning a prize, the most available prizes, and the highest expected value. You can read more about the methodology here.
You may think that your best shot at winning money are the high profile New York Lottery games like Mega Millions, Win 4, or Powerball. But you’ll find much better odds of winning money if you buy a cluster of scratcher tickets, especially when picking games based on remaining prizes data.
The best strategy: buy as many tickets for one game recommended in “Max Tickets to Buy.” You’ll likely get you at least one winner! This number of tickets is two standard deviations from the mean, giving you a 98% chance of winning at least one prize, and maybe more.
Here’s a little tip for New York – the New York Lottery website promotes another chance to win when they draw winners for bonus prizes. Since you’re likely to get one winner, the rest in the cluster are chances to win another prize!
You can see each New York scratcher game’s statistics here.
We’re adding new pages for each state in the United States, so check back again soon to see your home state!