Please remember each ticket is a bearer instrument. Sign the back of your ticket for your protection. You can collect a prize of up to and including $600 from any of the New York Lottery retailers. 

New York Lottery retailers can pay prizes on tickets presented up to a year after the draw.

For Take Five, the bonus prize of a Quick Pick Free Play MUST be claimed at a retailer location within a year of the draw date. After a year from the draw date, it is not valid. You can go to any Customer Service Center and receive payment by check for any winning ticket.

You can also submit a postage-paid claim-form mailer available at your New York Lottery retailer, or click here to download a mail-in claim form. Simply complete the form, put it in an envelope and mail it to: New York Lottery, P.O. Box 7533, Schenectady, NY 12301 – 7533.

For additional information on collecting your lottery prize, please click here to view the Help page.

If you present your ticket to your Lottery retailer, you will be given a computer-generated File Claim ticket. Attach this ticket to your copy of the claim form. RETAIN BOTH THE COMPUTER FILE CLAIM TICKET AND YOUR COPY OF THE CLAIM FORM UNTIL YOU HAVE RECEIVED YOUR CHECK IN THE MAIL. ALL PRIZES MUST BE CLAIMED WITHIN ONE YEAR OF THE DRAWING, or for Instant Tickets, ONE YEAR FROM THE ANNOUNCED END OF GAME. (See End Of Game Schedule here.)