Kerala Lottery Draw Codes Explained: SM, KN, AK, BR and the Series Letters

Updated July 2026.

Kerala's draw codes look cryptic and are actually one of the tidiest filing systems in Indian lotteries. Two letters name the ticket. The number counts the draws. Once you can read a code, you can find any result in the archive without knowing the date, and you stop being dependent on scraped "today's result" pages entirely.

This 6 Club explainer covers the letters, the numbers, the bumper codes and the separate series letter printed on your ticket — the one that causes most of the confusion. No winning numbers or prize amounts appear on this page.

A Kerala draw code has the form XX-nn. The letters are fixed for the lifetime of a ticket; the number increases by one each time that ticket is drawn.

• The letters are a name, not an abbreviation you can decode. They are assigned by the department, and while some are obviously derived from the ticket name, others are not. Do not try to reason them out — look them up.
• The number is a running count. It starts at 1 with a ticket's first draw and never resets. A ticket drawn weekly reaches the fifties within about a year of its introduction.
• The pairing is permanent. Because the number never repeats within a code, every XX-nn combination refers to exactly one draw, forever.

That last property is why we recommend searching by code rather than by date. A date search returns every draw that happened that day plus a great deal of noise; a code search returns one sheet.

Treat what follows as orientation, not as a legal register. These are the mappings commonly reported for the current line-up. The department has restructured its weekly range more than once, retiring ticket names and introducing new ones, and codes have been reassigned in the process — which is why old articles and current sheets sometimes disagree. The authority is the code and ticket name printed together in the header of the official result sheet.

Encountering a code that is not in this table is normal, particularly in archives going back several years. The reliable move is always the same: open the official sheet and read the ticket name in the header rather than guessing from the letters.

The most common error with Kerala codes is treating SM and SS as the same thing. They are not. SM is commonly reported as Samrudhi and SS as Sthree Sakthi — different tickets, different draw days, separate draw-number sequences. SM-65 and SS-65 are unrelated draws with their own result sheets, and checking against the wrong one produces a guaranteed non-match. We cover the mix-up in full on the SM-65 explainer.

Bumper lotteries — Onam, Christmas–New Year, Vishu, summer and monsoon — sit outside the weekly cycle, are sold over a longer period, and use their own numbering under the BR prefix. If you have a BR code, look for the specific bumper announcement rather than a weekday schedule.

Your physical ticket carries a single alphabetical character — the series letter. Kerala prints multiple series for the same draw, each running the same range of numbers. This is a printing and distribution mechanism, and it has one significant consequence:

The consolation prize is typically awarded on the first-prize number across the other series. That is the only tier where your series letter changes the outcome. Everywhere else, the digits are what matter.

Every Kerala sheet follows the same architecture, which makes them easy to read once you have seen one:

1. Header — ticket name, code, draw number, date. Verify all of it before you look at a single digit.
2. First prize, then consolation — the same number across the other series.
3. Second prize onwards — descending tiers listing full numbers.
4. Tail-digit tiers — the lower rungs, where only the last four digits need to match. Most winners appear here, and these are the tiers people abandon the sheet before reaching.

The full step-by-step checking method, including how to handle a possible match, is in our guide to checking a result by draw number. For what a specific code such as SM-65 refers to, see the SM-65 explainer.

The department publishes results and its archive at the official Kerala State Lotteries site, with the gazette as the formal record. Background on the department is summarised on Wikipedia. Our weekly draw schedule and Sthree Sakthi (SS) ticket guide follow the same sourcing rule.

We do not publish results, winning numbers or prize amounts on any page, and 6 Club is not affiliated with the Kerala State Lotteries department in any way.

Lotteries and our own games are for adults aged 18 and over, and both are chance-based. A code, a series letter or a "lucky" number does not change the odds of anything — the draw is random and has no memory of what came before. If you play, set a budget you can comfortably lose before you start and treat it as the price of the entertainment. Warning signs and support are covered in the problem gambling overview, and our limit tools live on the responsible gaming page. If waiting a week for a result is the part you find hard, our honest look at instant games is worth reading before you try the one-minute Wingo round.

The code questions that come up most often.

They name the ticket. Each Kerala State Lotteries ticket has a two-letter code assigned by the department — SM, KN, KR, NR and so on — which stays with that ticket for its lifetime. Some codes echo the ticket name and some do not, so look them up rather than trying to decode them.

It is the sequential draw number for that ticket, counting up from its first draw and never resetting. A weekly ticket reaches the fifties roughly a year after it is introduced. Because it never repeats, each code-and-number pairing identifies exactly one draw permanently.

No — and this is the most common mistake with Kerala codes. SM is commonly reported as Samrudhi and SS as Sthree Sakthi: different tickets, different draw days, and separate draw-number sequences, so SM-65 and SS-65 are unrelated draws with their own result sheets. Read the ticket name printed in the sheet header rather than matching on the two letters alone.

No. The draw code identifies the draw and is shared by everyone holding a ticket for it. The series letter is a single character identifying which print series your individual ticket belongs to, and it matters chiefly for the consolation prize, which is awarded on the first-prize number across the other series.

BR marks a bumper draw — the seasonal Onam, Christmas–New Year, Vishu, summer and monsoon lotteries. Bumpers sit outside the weekly rotation, are sold over a longer window, use their own numbering and have separately announced draw dates.

Because the department has restructured its weekly line-up more than once, retiring names and reassigning codes. Archived results keep their original codes, which is why legacy identifiers such as AK for Akshaya are still widely visible. Confirm against the ticket name printed on the official sheet.

Yes, and it is more reliable. The official archive is organised by ticket and draw number, so a code returns a single sheet, whereas a date returns every draw that day plus a great deal of duplicated third-party noise.

Two letters for the ticket, a running number for the draw, and a separate series letter on your ticket — that is the whole system. Learn it once and you never need a scraped results table again. Next, read the checking method or what SM-65 refers to. More explainers across 6 Club news. 18+, play responsibly.