As a New York Lottery player, when selecting your lottery game for tonight there are numerous considerations that you must keep in mind when making your selection. First and foremost is to decide if you want the chance of claiming a large jackpot or more frequent smaller victories; next evaluate each lottery game’s odds of winning to find one which best aligns with your expectations and goals; lastly ensure your financial house is in order before diving in the lottery pool.

Kenneth Alexander from USC Mathematics claims that playing the lottery does not make financial sense and cannot even generate enough revenue to cover its $2 ticket cost – yet plenty of people still gamble and spend this money for a chance at victory.

There are various strategies available to you in order to increase your odds of winning the lottery, such as using statistical data and intuition. According to one estimate, numbers that have only been out for six games or less comprise about 50% of winning combinations; it has also been demonstrated that common numbers (such as 1, 3, 5 7, 8, 12) are less likely to come up as winning combinations.

To increase your odds of winning the lottery, buy multi-state games rather than state scratch-offs and regularly check the results of past lotteries to see if any of your numbers were drawn – if this is indeed the case for you then consider prize size and likelihood before committing yourself.