Since I started playing the NY lottery a little over a year ago, my biggest hit was $500 on a $10 scratch game here about six months ago. Two weeks later I won another $500 on the same game. My next biggest win was $200 on the Win4 daily game. I wagered 50 cents on a number that had 2 identical digits. I played it as a box. The real irony of the story is that the number was drawn in the exact order that I played it. I would have won $5,000 if I played it straight for $1 or $2,500 if I played it straight for 50 cents!
I've also had a handful of other wins ranging from $10 to $100 on a variety of scratch and daily number games. I'm not counting the $1 to $5 wins from various scratch games.
My dream win would be to play a number in the daily Win4 game for like $5 to $10 straight and hit it. That would be a $25,000 to $50,000 win! There was a story posted on LP in the news section some time ago of a couple somewhere in the U.S. that played a number in the pick 4 game straight for $20. They won $100,000. That is too sweet.
I also dream of one day buying 5 separate tickets on the same number for $1 straight on the pick 3 game and hitting. That would be a $2,500 win and since you have 5 separate tickets, I would consider the local lottery retailers as a personal ATM....cash $500 one week on the first ticket....two weeks later cash another $500...and so on.
Good luck to all!