The short answer. Lottery Sambad has three draws every day: 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM
India Standard Time. The 1 PM and 8 PM draws are run by the Nagaland State Lottery, the 6 PM draw
by the Sikkim State Lottery. The first-prize ticket is known soon after each draw, but the full
official result sheet is often uploaded only the next day.
What time is each Lottery Sambad draw?
Draw times and the latest first prize for each slot | Draw | Time (IST) | Run by | Latest first prize |
|---|
| Lottery Sambad 1 PM |
1:00 PM |
Nagaland State Lottery, Kohima |
82D 69702 21 Sep |
| Lottery Sambad 6 PM |
6:00 PM |
Sikkim State Lottery, Gangtok |
83G 57709 21 Sep |
| Lottery Sambad 8 PM |
8:00 PM |
Nagaland State Lottery, Kohima |
61K 43323 21 Sep |
Those three times do not move. There is no winter timetable, no holiday timetable and no
weekend timetable: India does not change its clocks, and the draws run on every day of the
year. What does change is the name printed on the ticket and on the sheet. On one day the
8 PM draw might carry one name and the next day a completely different one, which confuses a
lot of people into thinking a different lottery has taken over. It has not. The slot is the
stable thing; the name is decoration.
The table above is filled from our own archive each time this page loads, so the right-hand
column always shows the most recent first-prize ticket we have verified for each slot, with
the date beside it.
When does the result actually appear after the draw?
This is where most of the frustration comes from. “Result time” means two
different things, and they are often several hours apart.
The draw itself
At the scheduled time, the draw takes place and the first-prize ticket is decided. That is
the moment people wait for, and the headline number — one series code plus one
five-digit number — is usually circulating within a short while.
The official result sheet
The sheet is the document with every tier on it: the first prize, the consolation prize, the
ten second-prize numbers, the third and fourth prize endings and the hundred fifth-prize
endings. It is produced separately and uploaded as a file, and it very often appears the
next day rather than the same evening. Anyone holding a ticket that might have won a lower
prize needs this sheet, not just the headline number.
Our page
We do not put a result up the moment a number starts circulating. Each draw goes live here
only after its sheet has been checked: exactly one first-prize ticket, the correct date and
the correct weekday. That usually costs a little time, and we think it is worth it.
Most recent Lottery Sambad 1 PM first prize on record: 82D 69702 on 21 Sep 2026.
Most recent Lottery Sambad 6 PM first prize on record: 83G 57709 on 21 Sep 2026.
Most recent Lottery Sambad 8 PM first prize on record: 61K 43323 on 21 Sep 2026.
Why can the result sheet lag behind the draw?
Because it is a document, not a data feed. The state lottery prepares the sheet, it is
printed with the draw name, the date, the weekday and a draw number, and then it is uploaded.
Somebody has to do that by hand, three times a day, every day. The official upload often
lands the day after the draw, and on some days later still.
That lag has a practical consequence. If you search for the evening result late at night and
find nothing complete, the draw has not been cancelled and nothing has gone wrong. The full
prize list simply has not been published yet. Checking again the next morning is usually all
it takes.
It also explains why screenshots of “today’s result” passed around on
messaging apps are a poor thing to rely on. A screenshot has no date you can trust, it can be
a sheet from a different day with the same weekday, and it can be edited. If you are going to
act on a result, act on the official sheet for the correct date and slot.
Where should I check the result?
On this site, there are four pages that matter, and each answers a slightly different
question:
If you only care about one slot, bookmark that slot’s page rather than the daily hub.
The hub shows the newest date we hold for all three draws together; the slot page keeps the
last ten sheets of the one draw you follow, so an older result is one tap away.
What time is Lottery Sambad in the Gulf and nearby countries?
A large number of people follow these draws from outside India, particularly from the Gulf.
Because neither India nor the Gulf states change their clocks for summer, the conversion is
fixed and the same every day of the year:
The three draw times, converted (no daylight saving on either side)
| India (IST) | UAE and Oman | Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain | Pakistan | Nepal | Bangladesh |
|---|
| 1:00 PM | 11:30 AM | 10:30 AM | 12:30 PM | 1:15 PM | 1:30 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 4:30 PM | 3:30 PM | 5:30 PM | 6:15 PM | 6:30 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 6:30 PM | 5:30 PM | 7:30 PM | 8:15 PM | 8:30 PM |
The date matters as much as the hour. Every Lottery Sambad draw is filed under its Indian
calendar date, so if you are somewhere far enough west that the evening draw falls on a
different date for you, search by the Indian date. For the Gulf and South Asia that never
happens: all three draws fall on the same calendar day everywhere in the table.
We are not the lottery. This is an independent results archive. We do not sell tickets,
we are not connected to the Nagaland or Sikkim state lotteries or to any distributor, and we
cannot pay or process a prize. Lottery Sambad and Dear Lottery tickets are sold only where
state law allows state lotteries; the rules depend on where you are, so ask the official
operator. Always confirm a winning ticket against the official result sheet.
What if a result looks late or missing?
Work through it in this order. First, check the clock and the slot: an 8 PM result will not
be there at 7:45, and the hub page will still be showing the 6 PM draw at that point. Second,
check the date: a result you are expecting “today” might already be under
yesterday’s date if you are looking after midnight. Third, give the official sheet
time. Where we already hold the first-prize ticket but not the sheet image, the page says the
sheet is being prepared rather than showing a blank space.
One thing that will not help is looking for a pattern in the timing, or in the numbers. Each
draw is independent of the last, and nothing about when a sheet was uploaded says anything
about the next result. Our explainer on
how lottery draws actually work covers why a random
draw has no memory.
