The short answer. Dear Lottery’s three daily draws are run by two
state lotteries. The Nagaland State Lottery in Kohima runs the 1 PM and 8 PM draws; the
Sikkim State Lottery in Gangtok runs the 6 PM draw. “Lottery Sambad” is the name
the results are published under. Knowing which state runs your slot tells you which sheet to
read and whom to ask about a prize.
Which state runs which draw?
The three draws, who runs each one, and the latest first prize | Draw | Time (IST) | Run by | Latest first prize |
|---|
| Lottery Sambad 1 PM |
1:00 PM |
Nagaland State Lottery, Kohima |
97B 05291 6 Oct |
| Lottery Sambad 6 PM |
6:00 PM |
Sikkim State Lottery, Gangtok |
82D 50839 6 Oct |
| Lottery Sambad 8 PM |
8:00 PM |
Nagaland State Lottery, Kohima |
42B 34861 6 Oct |
That split is fixed. It does not change with the day of the week or with the draw name, which
rotates every day. Whatever the name printed on today’s 6 PM sheet, the 6 PM draw is the
Sikkim draw; whatever the name on the 1 PM or 8 PM sheet, those are Nagaland’s.
It is worth noticing what that means for the day as a whole. Nagaland has two draws, one in
the early afternoon and one at night. Sikkim has one, in the early evening, sitting between
them. So a reader who follows every slot is following two different state lotteries, and
switching between them twice a day.
What are the names Dear Lottery and Lottery Sambad, then?
The names cause more confusion than anything else in this subject, so it is worth taking them
one at a time.
Dear Lottery
The name printed on the tickets and used when they are sold. It is a brand, and it covers
draws run by both states.
Lottery Sambad
The name most people search when they want the result. It refers to the published results
of these same draws, which is why it appears on so many result pages, ours included.
The daily draw name
A third name, printed on each sheet, which changes every day and carries the weekday inside
it. Our guide to Dear Lottery draw names
explains how it works and shows the last week of real ones.
None of those three names is an organiser in its own right. The organisers are the two state
lotteries. When somebody on a messaging group or a sales stall claims to “be”
Lottery Sambad or Dear Lottery, they are at most a seller or a results publisher, not the body
that runs the draw.
Why does it matter which state runs my draw?
For most people, most of the time, it does not: you read the result, check your ticket and
move on. It starts to matter in three situations.
When you pick the sheet
The header of each sheet names the state lottery that ran it. If your ticket is for 6 PM and
the sheet in front of you names Nagaland, you have the wrong sheet, whatever else looks
right. It is one of the quickest checks there is, and it catches a surprising number of
mix-ups between the 6 PM and 8 PM results late in the evening.
When a result is disputed
If two copies of a result disagree, the authority is the official sheet published by the
state that ran that draw. Not a screenshot, not a results website — including this
one — and not a seller’s printout.
When a ticket wins
Questions about a prize go to the state lottery that ran the draw on your ticket. How and
where to claim depends on that operator’s rules and on where you are, and only the
operator can answer it. Knowing which state that is saves a wasted journey or a wasted call.
If you want the full sequence for checking a ticket tier by tier, the
step-by-step ticket checking guide covers
it. For a walk through the sheet itself, including where the state is named, see
how to read a Lottery Sambad result
sheet.
Are the Nagaland and Sikkim draws different games?
In the way a ticket holder experiences them, no. Every draw, whichever state runs it, is a
raffle on a printed ticket number rather than a game where you choose numbers. Every sheet has
one first-prize ticket made of a series code and a five-digit number, a consolation for that
number in other series, ten five-digit second-prize numbers, ten four-digit endings each for
the third and fourth prizes, and a hundred four-digit endings for the fifth. Every sheet prints
a date, a draw name with the weekday in it and a draw number.
What differs is only who runs the draw, at what time, and so whose header is on the sheet.
That is why we organise results by time slot: one page each for
1 PM, 6 PM and
8 PM, with the state named on each, and one
daily page with all three.
Most recent Lottery Sambad 6 PM first prize on record: 82D 50839 on 6 Oct 2026.
Where can Dear Lottery tickets be bought?
Only where state law allows state lotteries. Rules differ from one place to another, and they
can change, so we do not keep a list: a list that is out of date is worse than no list at all.
If you are unsure whether tickets can be sold or bought where you are, the official operator is
the right place to ask, not a seller and not a results site.
The same caution applies to anyone offering tickets online, “guaranteed” numbers or
inside information on a draw. A state-run raffle has no insider tip to sell. Each draw is
independent of every other, and nothing in the result history says which ticket will win the
next one; our explainer on how lottery draws work
covers why.
Who are we, then?
An independent results archive. We read each official result sheet, check it — exactly
one first-prize ticket, a date and a weekday that agree — and store a copy so the result
stays findable after the official file is gone. We did not choose the names, we do not run the
draws, and our record is a reference, not a receipt.
We name the two state lotteries on every result page for a practical reason rather than a
promotional one. When a reader can see at a glance that the 6 PM result belongs to Sikkim and
the other two to Nagaland, they pick the right sheet, and they know where to take a question
that we cannot answer.
Not the operator, and not a seller. We are not connected to the Nagaland State Lottery,
the Sikkim State Lottery or any distributor or seller of Dear Lottery tickets. We do not sell
tickets and cannot confirm, process or pay a prize. For anything about buying or claiming, go
to the official operator for your draw.
