Lottery Sambad FAQ: short answers to common questions

“Sambad” is the word for news in Bengali and several other Indian languages. Put together, the name means lottery news: the daily announcement of the Dear lottery numbers. On this website it is also our own name, because publishing that announcement clearly is the only thing we do.

Every day at 1:00 PM, 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM Indian Standard Time. The three draws are separate. Each one has its own tickets, its own draw name and its own result sheet, so a ticket bought for one draw cannot win in another.

Usually within minutes. We cannot promise an exact minute, because we can only show a sheet after it appears on a public result list. Until then the card for that draw shows a waiting message instead of a number. It never shows a guess.

It is the phrase most people type when they want the result of the current date and nothing older. It is not a separate lottery or a different draw. The home page opens on the current Indian date and fills its three cards as the 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM sheets are published.

On the result lists we read, the 1 PM and 8 PM draws are listed under the Nagaland State Lottery and the 6 PM draw under the Sikkim State Lottery. We repeat what the lists print. We are not part of either lottery department and do not speak for them.

Every Dear draw carries a name that changes with the weekday, in the style of “Dear Shine Tuesday”. Sellers and players often ask for a ticket by that name. The name is printed on the ticket and on the result sheet, so use it to confirm you are reading the right sheet.

They are everyday names for the three draw times. Morning means the 1 PM draw, because it is the first draw of the day. Day or evening means the 6 PM draw. Night means the 8 PM draw. The printed time on your ticket is what counts, not the nickname.

They come from Bengali and Hindi speech, often through voice typing. “Ektar” (sometimes heard by the phone as “actor”) is 1 o’clock, so the 1 PM draw. “Chhota” or “chhatar” is 6 o’clock. “Atta”, “aat-ta” or even “after” is 8 o’clock. All three lead to the same daily results.

A sheet carries the draw name, the date, the draw time and the prize lines. On current sheets there are six lines: the 1st prize, the consolation prize and the 2nd to 5th prizes. Each line lists its winning numbers and the amount paid for a match.

On current sheets the 1st prize is ₹1 Crore and only one ticket wins it. The winning entry is printed in full: the series, then five digits. Your ticket must match both parts exactly. Five matching digits in a different series is the consolation prize, not the 1st prize.

It is ₹1,000 on current sheets. It goes to tickets that carry the same five digits as the 1st prize number but in any other series. It exists because the same five digits are printed across many series, and only one series takes the top prize.

The 2nd prize (₹9,000) needs all five digits of your ticket to equal one of the ten numbers on that line. The 3rd (₹450), 4th (₹250) and 5th (₹120) prizes look only at the last four digits. The series does not matter for any of these four lines.

No. A ticket is paid once, for the highest prize it matches, and only in the draw printed on it. If your last four digits appear in two lines, you receive the larger amount. Our checker follows the same rule and shows one prize per draw.

The series is the short code before the main number: two digits and a letter. A full ticket number is the series followed by five digits. The series decides only between the 1st prize and the consolation prize. For every other line you can ignore it.

It is an old habit. Result sheets were once sent to ticket sellers by fax machine, so the sheet itself came to be called the fax. Some people still ask for it by that word when they simply mean the full sheet of a draw.

The table on this page shows the lines on current sheets. Older sheets in our archive can print different lines or amounts. When you open an old date, trust the sheet stored for that date and not today’s table. We show each sheet as it was published.

Open the ticket checker, type the five digits printed on your ticket, choose the draw date and tap Check result. The tool reads the 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM sheets of that date together and names the prize line for each draw, or tells you the number is not on the sheet.

No, but it helps. Without the series the checker can still test the 2nd to 5th prizes. If your five digits equal the 1st prize digits, it tells you that the series will decide between the 1st prize and the consolation prize, and shows the winning series so you can compare.

It lists every stored draw in which your five digits or your last four digits were printed. It predicts nothing. Each five-digit number has the same 1 in 1,00,000 chance per series of matching the 1st prize digits in any draw, whatever happened before.

On current sheets the 3rd, 4th and 5th lines print 120 four-digit endings in total, out of 10,000 possible endings. That is 1.2 percent per draw. It is the same for every ending and every draw. No ending is “due” and none is “hot”.

Open the old results page and pick the month, then the day. Every stored date has its own page with the full sheets. If you search with the word “tarikh” it only means date, so “26 tarikh” is the result of the 26th. Pick that day in the right month.

Our archive holds only the sheets we could read from public lists. If a list did not carry a date or a draw, we show it as missing. We never fill a gap with a guessed or copied number, because a wrong number is worse than an empty space.

It has its own page with the three sheets of the previous day, which helps when you bought a ticket for the night draw and checked only the next morning. Hindi speakers often search “kal ka” for the same thing. Older days sit in the archive by date.

It is one table per month with the first prize number of every stored draw, one row per day. It is useful for finding a date quickly or for checking a number you only half remember. It is a record of the past and says nothing about future draws.

No. We have no video and no broadcast. The live board is a countdown to each draw and a card that fills by itself once the published sheet has been read. Around a draw it looks for the new sheet every 20 seconds, so you do not need to refresh.

Yes, if you ask for it. On the alerts page you can switch on a phone notification that arrives after each of the three draws, or leave an email address and confirm it to get one mail per draw. Both are free, need no account and can be stopped with one tap. On an iPhone, add the site to the Home Screen first.

Public listings say a prize must be claimed within 30 days of the draw. Treat that as a guide only. The rules printed on the back of your ticket and the lottery department’s notice decide the real limit, so read them on the day you find a match.

Small prizes are usually paid through ticket sellers. Large prizes go through the state lottery office and need paperwork. The back of your ticket says which route applies to your amount. We cannot tell you which seller or office will handle your ticket.

Expect to be asked for the original ticket, a photo identity document, proof of address, your bank details and photographs. The lottery department’s claim notice gives the exact list and the form to use. Follow that notice if it differs from anything written here.

Under Indian income-tax law, tax is deducted at source at 30 percent, plus cess, from lottery winnings above ₹10,000. So the 1st prize is paid after tax. Prizes of ₹9,000 and lower are below that threshold. For your own tax return, ask a tax professional.

No. We only publish results. We cannot receive a ticket, file a claim, speed one up or confirm that a claim was accepted. Anyone who offers to do this in our name is not from this website. A claim is between you and the lottery department.

Keep it flat, dry and undamaged, and store it somewhere safe. The original paper ticket is what a claim is paid on. Follow the instructions on the back of the ticket about where and when to sign. Do not post a clear photo of it publicly.

No. Our checker is a convenience and a typing or reading mistake is always possible. Compare your ticket with the result printed in the government gazette before you act. The gazette is the record that claims are paid on, and it prevails over this site.

No. We sell no tickets, take no payments and have no agents. We are an information website and not a lottery department. If a page, a caller or a chat account uses our name to sell tickets or collect money, it is not us.

As far as public notices say, the state lottery departments do not sell these paper tickets online. We cannot vouch for anyone who offers Dear tickets through a website or a chat app, and we advise you not to pay such a seller.

No. “You won, pay a fee or tax first” is always a scam. Real tax is deducted from the prize, never collected in advance. Do not pay and do not share bank details or one-time passwords. Report it on the cyber-fraud helpline 1930 or at cybercrime.gov.in.

Under the Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998, each state decides whether lotteries may be sold there. Some states allow them and many do not. Buying or selling tickets where they are banned is illegal. Check the rule where you live. We do not publish a list of states.

No. Every draw is random and nobody can know a number in advance. Anyone selling a “lucky number” is selling nothing. We publish results after the draw and explain the rules. Nothing on this site tells you what to buy or whether to buy at all.

Edited result pictures and altered PDF files do circulate. Check that the draw name, the date and the draw time on the image match your ticket, then compare the numbers with a second source and, for any real claim, with the government gazette.

No. The checker matches your number inside your own browser against result files that the page downloads. The number is not uploaded to us. Two optional features do send something: a ticket photo goes to our service only to be read and is not kept, and tickets you save are sent for checking only when phone alerts are on. There are no accounts and no login, and the site sets no cookies of its own. Only the optional features keep something: tickets you choose to save stay in your phone’s storage, and phone alerts or the result email store what they need to reach you. The privacy policy explains this in detail.

No. The Kerala State Lottery is a separate lottery run by Kerala’s own department, with its own tickets and results. We also hold no results under any “Bhutan lottery” name and cannot confirm such a draw. We list only the three Dear draws.

Talk to someone early. Tele-MANAS is a free mental-health line you can call on 14416. Our play-safe guide has simple steps for setting a limit and stopping. A lottery ticket is a small entertainment cost for adults. It is not a way to earn or to repay a debt.