Lottery Sambad 8 PM Result Today: Night Draw Guide

The night draw is the one most likely to be searched for in the dark, on a phone, after the day’s other two results have already come and gone. Two things make it different from the 1 PM and 6 PM slots: the document usually arrives after you have gone to bed, and the calendar date turns over while people are still looking for it. Both are easy to handle once you know they are coming.

What time is the Lottery Sambad 8 PM result?

Eight in the evening, India Standard Time, every day of the year including Sundays. The clock does not change for summer, and there is no holiday timetable. Across the Gulf, 8 PM IST falls at 6:30 PM in the UAE and Oman and at 7:30 PM in Pakistan, so for most readers outside India the draw actually happens earlier in their evening than it does in India. The conversions for all three slots are in our guide to Lottery Sambad result times.

Most recent Lottery Sambad 8 PM first prize on record: 38L 06381 on 4 Nov 2026.

Why does the 8 PM sheet so often arrive the next day?

Because the result and the document behind it are two separate things, and only one of them is quick.

If you hold a ticket that might have won a lower prize, the sheet is not optional: the lower tiers only exist on that document. Waiting until morning is usually the whole answer.

After midnight, which date is “today”?

This is the trap peculiar to the night draw. Every Lottery Sambad result is filed under the Indian calendar date on which it was drawn. At half past midnight, the draw you are still thinking of as tonight already belongs to yesterday, so a search for today’s date finds a day whose 8 PM draw has not happened yet.

The fix is to search the date printed on the ticket rather than the date on your phone. On a day page, the three draws of that Indian date sit together, so you can see at a glance whether the one you want is there at all.

The same rule settles the arguments that start on messaging groups overnight. When one person says the result is out and another says the page is empty, they are usually looking at two different dates rather than two different results. Agree on the Indian date of the draw first and the disagreement tends to disappear. It is also why we never label a sheet with a relative word like tonight: the date on the document is the only label that still makes sense in the morning.

The page for 3 November 2026 is an example of that shape: one date, the 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM draws, and each sheet we hold for it.

How do I check an 8 PM ticket?

1. Confirm the draw time and date printed on your ticket.
2. Open the 8 PM result page, which carries only night draws and keeps the last ten of their sheets.
3. Open the sheet for your date and check that the header names the Nagaland State Lottery and that the weekday in the draw name fits the date.
4. Read the first-prize line in full, series code included, then the consolation line if your five digits match but your series does not.
5. Take the last four digits of your ticket through the second, third, fourth and fifth prize blocks, which print endings rather than whole tickets.

Our ticket checking guide covers each tier slowly, and how to read a result sheet goes through the document from the header to the seller line if any part of the page is unfamiliar.

What does the 8 PM draw share with the 1 PM draw?

The operator. Both the afternoon and the night draws come from the Nagaland State Lottery, which means their sheets carry the same header and the same house style, and that the two of them are easy to confuse with each other while being hard to confuse with the 6 PM sheet from Sikkim.

They are still entirely separate draws, with their own draw names, draw numbers and tickets. Sharing an operator does not link two results in any way, and no number from the afternoon tells you anything about the night. Which slot belongs to which state is laid out in who actually runs Dear Lottery.

There is a practical habit in this for anyone who follows more than one slot. Keep the slot page for the draw you actually buy, rather than the daily hub, and you will never be handed a sheet from the wrong draw to check against. The hub exists to answer what happened today across all three; the slot page exists to answer what happened in your draw, and it is the safer place to stand when it is late and the numbers start to blur.

Where are older 8 PM results kept?

Start with the 8 PM page for the last ten sheets of this slot. For a single older date, use that date’s own page, reachable from the daily result page. For a ticket you found long after the draw, a monthly page lists every stored draw day of one month in one place.

Older sheets do not stay available on official channels indefinitely, which is covered in our guide to finding an old result by date. How each sheet is confirmed before it is stored here is described in how we collect and verify results.