aransas
You can play 3 choices.
1. Box which means any order the numbers show up you get paid. Most states pay $80 prize for $1 bet.
2. Straight which means the numbers must be in the exact order. Most states pay $500 prize for $1 bet.
3. Straight/Box. This means if you win-if the numbers are in exact order you get half of the straight prize. And if the numbers are in any order then you get half of the box prize.
My advice to you. Play on a budget like $15 to $20 every day. Play singles for 6 times in a row then start playing doubles for 2 times in a row. Then back to singles.
Don't go over budget either.
I find the best way to get the straight hits is to NOT hit the auto button. And NOT enter past winners. I find it works best to simply load in the 1000 numbers and simply look at the last draw-Odd/Even and then go click on that Odd/Even filter to remove that last draw pattern. Do this for the high/low and in/out and line/curve and sum and 1234. You should have a lot of numbers removed at this point. Then you can look at each letter in the Odd/Even to see what looks obvious to come up next. Even if you see one letter that should be coming up next then go to that filter and make sure that letter is not being filtered and take out everything else. Be careful on to many filters and filter until you can afford that many numbers. If you follow what I wrote here you will have lots of success..
