How to Read a Lottery Sambad Result Sheet

Most guides tell you how to check a ticket. This one is about the document itself, because once you can read a sheet at a glance, checking becomes quick and spotting a fake becomes easy. Spacing and typefaces can vary from one sheet to another, but every sheet carries the same parts: first the markers that say which draw it is, then the prizes from largest down.

Part one: which draw is this sheet for?

The top of the sheet exists to answer one question — is this the right draw? — and it answers it several times over. Read every marker before you look at a single number below.

That last check is the single most useful habit you can build. A sheet whose weekday and date disagree is either the wrong sheet or an edited one. It is the same check we run before any sheet is published here, alongside confirming that there is exactly one first-prize ticket.

Part two: the first prize and the consolation

Below those markers sits the most important line on the page: the single first-prize ticket. It is printed in full, as a series code followed by a five-digit number. The series code is a short mix of digits and a letter, like “61K”. Here is how that line reads on the most recent sheets we hold:

Close to it is the consolation prize. This goes to tickets that carry the same five-digit number as the first prize but a different series code. In other words, the first-prize line decides both prizes at once: one exact ticket takes the first prize, and the same number in any other series takes the consolation. If your five digits are identical to the first prize and only your series is different, this is your line.

Part three: the second prize

The second prize block is a group of ten five-digit numbers. There is no series code in front of them. Your ticket is compared on its full five-digit number, and all five digits have to be the same, in the same order. It is the last block on the sheet that compares whole numbers; from here downwards, the sheet only prints endings.

Part four: the third, fourth and fifth prizes

These three blocks look different from everything above them because they print only four digits per entry. That is not a printing shortcut. It is the rule: these prizes are matched on the last four digits of your ticket number, whatever the series and whatever the first digit.

• Third prize: ten four-digit endings.
• Fourth prize: ten four-digit endings.
• Fifth prize: a hundred four-digit endings, which is why this block takes up so much of the sheet.

With a hundred entries in the fifth block, a system helps. Write your four-digit ending on a scrap of paper, then read the block row by row with a finger or the edge of a card under each line. Do not skip rows because they “look” wrong, and read the third and fourth blocks as carefully as the fifth; they are shorter, and easier to glance past.

Part five: the amounts and the seller line

The sheet prints the fifth prize as Rs 120 and, beside it, Rs 10 for the seller. That second figure is easy to misread. It is marked for the seller, the person who sold the ticket, and is not a second prize for the person holding it.

For every other tier we do not repeat any amount here. Read it directly from the official sheet for your draw, and treat the operator as the only authority on what is paid and how.

Most recent Lottery Sambad 1 PM first prize on record: 61L 49511 on 3 Oct 2026.

Where does everyone go wrong when reading a sheet?

Three things come up again and again. The first is reading the date month-first, which turns some dates into entirely different days. The day is always first. The second is reading the wrong block: a four-digit ending checked against the second prize block will never match, because that block holds five-digit numbers. The third is reading a sheet for the right weekday but the wrong week, which is exactly what the date and the draw number exist to catch.

If you want the reading turned into a routine, our step-by-step ticket checking guide puts the tiers into a numbered sequence. And if the sheet you need is from a few weeks back, the guide to finding an old result by date shows where the older sheets are kept.

Where can I see today’s sheets?

The Lottery Sambad result page carries all three of the day’s sheets as images once they have been checked. For one draw time, the 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM pages each keep the last ten sheets. Tap any sheet to open it at full size, which makes the hundred fifth-prize endings far easier to read on a phone.