Nagaland State Lottery: The Complete Guide to Dear 1PM, 6PM and 8PM

Three Draws a Day, Every Day

If Indian lottery had a heartbeat, it would sound like Nagaland. Three times a day — 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM, every day of the year — the Directorate of Nagaland State Lotteries conducts the Dear draws, and by evening the results have travelled to lottery counters in dozens of towns across the states where the tickets are sold. No other daily lottery system in the country matches that rhythm: more than a thousand draws a year, each with a ₹1 Crore first prize, on a ticket that costs less than a cup of tea.

This is the complete guide to how it all works: the draws and their names, the ₹7 ticket and what is printed on it, the full prize structure including the prizes paid to the seller, how and when results are published, how to check a ticket properly, and what claiming actually involves. Whether you play daily or are holding a Nagaland ticket for the first time, everything on this page is what regulars learn over months — in one place.

A Short History and the Legal Frame

Nagaland is one of India's original lottery states: its state lotteries have been running since the early 1970s, decades before most states experimented with draws of their own. The system operates under the central Lotteries (Regulation) Act, 1998, which allows state governments to organise lotteries while prohibiting them in states that choose to opt out. Nagaland organises; the Directorate of Nagaland State Lotteries conducts the draws and publishes the results as official gazette documents.

Two legal points matter to players. First, a Nagaland ticket is a state government lottery ticket — a regulated draw with published results and a formal claim process, not a private scheme. Second, legality follows your location as well as the ticket: some states prohibit the sale of other states' lotteries within their borders. Buy from authorised sellers in places where the sale is permitted, and treat any website offering to sell you a "Nagaland ticket online" with suspicion — there is no official online sale channel; genuine tickets are printed paper sold over counters.

The Three Daily Draws

1 PM — the day draw. The first draw of the day, popular with players who want their result before the afternoon ends. 6 PM — the evening draw. The biggest of the three: it is also the draw that Sikkim conducts and sells as its own Dear 6 PM, so one draw serves players of both states. 8 PM — the night draw. The last word of the lottery day, closing the schedule at 8 in the evening.

Each draw is complete in itself: its own tickets, its own series, its own ₹1 Crore first prize and its own full prize list. A ticket belongs to exactly one draw — date and time are printed on it — and cannot win in any other. Results are published shortly after each draw; on this site, the homepage carries the day's three draws as they land, and our checks have the day draw's full result up in the early afternoon, the evening results following their draws.

Why Every Draw Has a Different Name

Dear draws carry day-specific names. Monday's 1 PM draw is Dear Rise; Tuesday's is Dear Shine; the 6 PM names run Empire, Legend, Prestige, Regal, Supreme, Crown and Elite across the week; the 8 PM names run Magic, Clover, Destiny, Dream, Fame, Horizon and Lucky. There are twenty-one weekly names in all — seven days times three draws — and they exist for a practical reason: a week contains twenty-one separate draws that must never be confused with one another, and a name is harder to mix up than a bare time slot.

When checking a ticket, the name printed on it and the name on the result must match, along with the date. Our guide to all Dear draw names carries the full weekly chart, and every result page on this site shows the draw name beside the time.

The Ticket: What ₹7 Buys

The Dear ticket's printed price (M.R.P.) is ₹7. On its face you will find the draw name, the date and time, the series (a number-letter pair such as 74L) and your five-digit ticket number, along with the barcode and the seller's stamp space on the back. Guard three details: the series is part of your number for the top prizes, the date and draw decide which result applies to you, and the printed price is the most you should ever pay — a genuine ₹7 ticket sold above M.R.P. is a warning sign about the seller.

Buy from authorised retail counters, take the ticket for the draw you intend (sellers sometimes hold stock for several upcoming draws), and check the date on the ticket before you leave the counter, not after the draw. Photographing a new ticket, front and back, is a ten-second habit that settles most disputes before they start.

The Complete Prize Structure

Every daily draw — 1 PM, 6 PM and 8 PM alike — pays the same structure:

Read the structure the way experienced players do: the crore is the dream, but the last-four-digits tiers are the daily reality — 120 winning combinations per draw across the 3rd, 4th and 5th prizes means thousands of small wins in every single draw, the ones most often lost because players check only the top line. On top of the player's prizes, the system pays the seller of a winning ticket too — ₹5,00,000 on the first prize, ₹500 on a consolation, ₹500 on the 2nd, ₹50 on the 3rd, ₹20 on the 4th and ₹10 on the 5th — which is why good counters are genuinely happy to check your ticket carefully.

Our prize tiers guide walks through worked examples of every tier, including the consolation rule that confuses almost every first-time player.

How Results Are Published — and How to Check

After each draw, the department publishes the result as the official gazette PDF; the result posters circulate to sellers, and sites like this one republish the numbers in readable form within minutes. Your checking options, best first:

Full result page. Open the draw's page here — the homepage carries today's three draws — and compare your series and number against every tier, not just the first prize. Ticket Checker. The Ticket Checker compares your number against all tiers of the draw at once, and can read a ticket photo or a barcode scan, which removes digit-slip errors entirely. Official PDF. For a win — any win — confirm against the gazette PDF linked from the draw page before you claim; it is the document the claim office will use. Our PDF verification guide explains how to read it, including the scanned pages.

For old tickets, the archive holds dated pages for every draw, and the result chart lines up the last thirty days of first prizes on one screen.

Claiming a Nagaland Prize

The essentials: sign the back of the ticket the moment you know it has won; keep it flat, dry and unlaminated; and claim within 30 days of the draw. Small prizes are paid by the seller or agent on the spot. Larger prizes go through the formal route — claim form, the ticket surrendered to the department or its designated bank, identity and bank documents — and prizes above ₹10,000 are paid after 30% tax deducted at source under Section 194B, with the 5% agent commission also deducted where it applies. The complete procedure, with the document list, is our claim process guide.

Never sell a winning ticket to a stranger offering "instant cash" at a discount, and never hand it over without a receipt. The claim system is slow by design — it is protecting the one person the ticket belongs to.

Bumpers: The Festive Giants

Several times a year the daily rhythm pauses for a bumper: a special high-value draw on a costlier ticket with a first prize in crores — Nagaland's recent bumpers have carried ₹3 Crore first prizes, with seven prize tiers. The Puja Bumper in October is the current season's edition, and our Puja Bumper guide covers its tiers and checking in full. Bumper tickets are sold for weeks in advance, their results publish on the draw evening, and the same 30-day claim discipline applies.

Playing With Your Eyes Open

Three facts deserve the same prominence as the prizes. Every daily draw's first prize is won by exactly one ticket combination out of the lakhs printed; the odds of the crore are tiny for every player equally, and no slot, name, series or pattern changes them — our study of which slot pays most shows the three draws paying identically by design. Past results, charted on our result chart, describe the past only. And a ₹7 ticket is entertainment priced like a snack — the moment lottery spending starts competing with household money, it has stopped being the cheap daily ritual it is designed to be.

How the Draw Itself Works

Players rarely think about the machinery behind the numbers, but it is worth understanding once. Each Dear draw is conducted by the Directorate under official supervision: the winning combinations are drawn for every tier in sequence — first prize with its series, the consolation structure, then the 2nd prize numbers, then the last-four-digit lists. The outcome is recorded as the draw's official result and published as the gazette PDF, which is the document of record from that moment on. The posters at shops, the numbers on this site and the forwards on phones are all republications of that single official record — which is why, when anything ever disagrees, the gazette is the tiebreaker and why we link it from every draw page.

This structure also explains the day's rhythm. The first-prize number travels fastest because it is a single combination; the complete tier lists — hundreds of last-four-digit entries — take longer to publish in final form. So the normal sequence after each draw is: jackpot number within minutes, full result list shortly after, gazette PDF the same day. A player checking early sees the headline; a player with a possible small win does best to wait for the full list before concluding anything, because the 3rd, 4th and 5th prizes are exactly the part that arrives last.

A Day in the Nagaland Lottery

Put together, a lottery day looks like this. Morning: counters open with tickets for all three of the day's draws (and advance stock for tomorrow); regulars buy their series and numbers early, because popular combinations at busy counters sell out. 1:00 PM: the day draw; by early afternoon its full result is published and the first checking round happens at counters and on phones. Afternoon: the day's second wave of sales, now for the two evening draws. 6:00 PM: the shared evening draw — the day's biggest moment, watched in both Nagaland and Sikkim. 8:00 PM: the night draw closes the schedule; by late evening all three results are final, the PDFs are out, and the counters' last service of the day is checking the pile of tickets people bring in after dinner. Then the calendar turns, the draw names rotate to the next day's set, and it begins again. Understanding that rhythm is most of what "knowing the Nagaland lottery" means in practice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Three draws a day, a ₹7 ticket, a crore on top and small prizes by the thousand underneath — that is the whole Nagaland system. Learn its names, check every tier, keep the PDF habit, and the system will never hold a surprise for you — except, with luck, the good kind.