As the home website of New York State lotteries, nylottery.org provides information on winning tickets and how to claim prizes.

From the top menu, visitors to the site can read up on how to play the various lottery games available. The site also includes the all-important details on how to claim a prize and ways that a winning ticket should be protected until the prize is received.

The site provides both written and visual information on how to decide if your ticket is a winning one. The questions page informs readers on how money taken in by the various lotteries is distributed in the community. For further reading on this subject, the Mission for Education page of the site provides details on how money from the lottery is put towards education. The page also answers questions about what to do if you have won, in case the reader is fortunate enough to need that information.

Some lottery games can be subscribed for and will arrive in the mail on a regular basis. Such subscriptions can be applied for on this website.

A full list of recent winning numbers can be viewed on the website, for anyone who is holding a potentially winning ticket. A list of past winners can also be viewed online.