Kerala Lottery Draw Codes: SM, KN, SS, AK, BR and the Rest

How Kerala Lottery Codes Are Built

A Kerala lottery reference looks like SM-65 or KN-142, and it is made of exactly two parts.

The letters are a series code: a short abbreviation of the ticket's name, printed on the ticket and used on every official document about that lottery. The digits are the draw number: a running weekly count for that ticket alone. Neither part is ever a prize, a tier or a winning figure.

The system exists for a practical reason. Ticket names are long and bilingual, and a department publishing a signed result every day needs an unambiguous filing reference. A two-letter code plus a sequence number gives every draw in the programme a unique address.

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The Current Weekly Codes

Kerala runs a different named ticket on each day of the week. The table below sets out the commonly reported mappings for the current line-up. It is a reference of reported mappings, not a legal register — the Kerala State Lotteries Department defines the codes, this page does not, and the code printed on your own ticket outranks every table online including this one.

Two warnings about this table. First, the department revises its line-up periodically — names are retired, introduced and reassigned. Second, the printed code on the ticket in your hand is authoritative in a way no web page can be. Use the table to orient yourself and the ticket to decide.

Legacy Codes You Will Still Run Into

Search volume does not update when a lottery is renamed. People search for tickets they bought years ago, and archived results from those years remain online and remain valid for the draws they describe.

If you find a result carrying one of these codes, it is almost certainly a genuine archived document rather than a fake. It simply does not tell you anything about a draw held this week. When you are checking a ticket you actually hold, the code on that ticket is the only one that matters.

The BR Series: Bumper Draws

Alongside the weekly programme, Kerala runs occasional bumper lotteries tied to festivals and seasons — Onam (Thiruvonam), Vishu, Christmas–New Year, Summer, Monsoon and Pooja bumpers among them. These carry BR codes with their own running sequence, such as BR-100 style references.

Bumpers differ from weekly tickets in several ways that matter when you are checking one.

• They are one-off draws, not weekly. The BR sequence therefore advances only a handful of times a year.
• They are sold over a long window. Tickets go on sale weeks or months before the draw, which means the gap between purchase and result is unusually long.
• Ticket prices and prize ladders differ from weekly draws. We do not quote figures for either — the department revises them, and any number printed here would go stale.
• Every bumper has its own name. "BR" alone does not identify a draw; you need the number, and ideally the bumper name too.

Anatomy of a Full Reference

Put the parts together and a complete, unambiguous reference to a Kerala draw looks like this.

The first two identify the document. The third confirms you have the right one. Only the fourth is compared against the prize tiers. Our cornerstone guide on what an SM-65 style code means works through that separation in full, and the draw-number checking method turns it into a workflow.

The Mistakes Codes Are Designed to Prevent

• KN vs KR. Karunya Plus and Karunya are different tickets on different days. This is the single most common Kerala mix-up, and it produces both false celebrations and missed prizes.
• SM vs SS. Sthree Sakthi is reported as SS; SM is reported as a different weekly ticket entirely. Both start with S and a great many articles collapse the two, sending readers to the wrong result sheet. If the sheet says SM and your ticket says SS, it is not your draw.
• Same number, different series. SM-65 and KN-65 are unrelated draws. A page showing "result 65" with no code is showing you nothing.
• Right ticket, wrong week. Weekly draws share a name, so the draw number is the only thing separating this Sunday from last Sunday.
• Bumper mistaken for weekly. A BR draw is a separate, occasional lottery with its own sequence and its own sale window.
• Legacy code assumed current. An archived AK or NR result is a real document about a real past draw — and irrelevant to a ticket you bought this week.

Verifying a Code the Official Way

1. Read the ticket. Series code, draw number and date are all printed on it.
2. Open the department portal from a bookmark. Kerala State Lotteries publishes at statelottery.kerala.gov.in, and reaching it via an advertisement is how people end up on look-alike pages.
3. Match code and number together, then confirm the date agrees.
4. Ignore any code sent to you in a message. A code arriving with a claim that you have won is a scam pattern, not information.

For background on the programme itself — its history as India's first state-run lottery and how it is administered — the Kerala State Lotteries overview on Wikipedia is a reasonable, sourced starting point.

Conclusion

Kerala's code system is a filing scheme, and once you can read it, checking a result stops being a search problem and becomes a lookup. Letters name the lottery, digits name the draw, the date confirms it, and only your ticket serial gets compared against the prize tiers. Legacy codes are history, not fakes — and BR is a separate, occasional series with its own rhythm.

Next, read the cornerstone on what SM-65 actually means, the draw-number lookup method, or our weekly draw schedule. The one-minute alternative lives on Wingo1Min.