What are Kerala lottery series codes?

They are short letter prefixes that identify which weekly ticket a draw belongs to, followed by a number identifying which draw of that ticket it is. The letters are abbreviations of the ticket name — SS for Sthree Sakthi, KN for Karunya Plus, KR for Karunya, and so on. Together the letters and number give every draw a unique reference you can search the official archive with.

Why do some codes appear in old results but not in the current schedule?

Because the Kerala State Lotteries Department has restructured its weekly ticket line-up more than once, retiring some tickets and launching others. Historical draws keep the code they were issued under, so archives contain series that are no longer running. AK is the most frequently encountered example of this.

What is the BR series?

BR identifies the bumper draws — the periodic special lotteries run around festivals and seasons, separate from the daily weekly rotation. Bumpers have their own ticket price, their own prize structure and their own draw date, and they are typically announced well in advance rather than following a fixed weekly cycle.

Do the numbers after the letters ever reset?

The draw number counts upward within its series, so a long-running ticket accumulates a high number over the years. If a ticket is relaunched under a new name, the new series begins its own count from the start. That is why you can encounter a low draw number on a recently introduced ticket and a much higher one on an established series.

How do I make sure I am reading the right result sheet?

Match the letters and the number on your ticket against the letters and number at the top of the sheet, then confirm the date. All three should agree before you compare a single digit. Checking a ticket against the wrong series is the most common self-inflicted error in lottery checking, and it is entirely avoidable.

Are the codes the same as the ticket serial number?

No. The draw code identifies the draw; the ticket serial identifies your individual ticket within that draw and is printed on the ticket itself. Searching an official archive for your serial number will not find anything useful — you search for the draw code, open the sheet, and then look for your serial on it.

Where should I confirm the current code list?

On the Kerala State Lotteries Department’s own website, which publishes the current ticket schedule and the official result sheets. Any list on a third-party site, this one included, is a snapshot of a system that the department can and does revise. Treat it as orientation and verify the specifics officially.

Kerala Lottery Draw Codes Explained: SM, SS, KN, KR, AK & BR

Updated 27 July 2026 · Reviewed weekly · 8 min read · Dhani Game Team

Grid of Kerala lottery series letter codes beside a printed ticket and result sheet, illustrating the draw-code explainer on the Dhani Game blog

Quick answer: Kerala lottery codes are letters for the ticket, number for the draw. SS is Sthree Sakthi, KN is Karunya Plus, KR is Karunya, SM is Samrudhi, AK is the retired Akshaya ticket you will still meet in archives, and BR marks the bumper specials. This Dhani Game reference explains each family and how to match one to a result sheet. No winning numbers are published here — confirm every result on the official department source.

Kerala’s lottery system is one of the oldest state-run schemes in India and it has accumulated a vocabulary that nobody ever formally explains to players. The codes are the clearest example. They appear on every ticket, every result sheet and every search query, and yet almost no page tells you what they stand for. This is that page — a reference you can come back to, rather than a result table that expires.

The Code Map

Code	Ticket	Status	Note
SM	Samrudhi	Current weekly line-up	The code behind “SM-65” style searches
SS	Sthree Sakthi	Tuesday	Frequently confused with SM
KN	Karunya Plus	Thursday	Covered in depth in our Thursday draw guide
KR	Karunya	Weekend rotation	One of the longest-running tickets
BT	Bhagyathara	Current weekly line-up	Introduced in a line-up revision
DL	Dhanalekshmi	Current weekly line-up	Introduced in a line-up revision
SK	Suvarna Keralam	Current weekly line-up	Introduced in a line-up revision
AK	Akshaya	Retired	Still appears throughout the archives
BR	Bumper series	Occasional	Festival and seasonal specials

Read that table as orientation, not as gospel. The department revises its ticket line-up periodically, and the authoritative current schedule is published on the Kerala State Lotteries Department site. Broader background on the scheme’s history is on Wikipedia.

Why the Letters Are Abbreviations, Not Categories

A recurring assumption is that the letters encode something meaningful about the ticket — its price band, its prize size, its region. They do not. They are simply short forms of the ticket’s Malayalam name, chosen to be unambiguous on a printed sheet. That is why you cannot infer anything about a draw from its letters beyond which ticket it belongs to.

It also explains why similar-sounding names get different codes and dissimilar names get similar-looking ones. The system was designed for clerical clarity in a paper-based process, and it works well for that. It was never designed to be searched by people typing half-remembered abbreviations into a phone, which is precisely what everybody now does.

Retired Codes and Why They Persist

AK — Akshaya — is the code most people encounter without a matching current ticket. It ran for years, built up an enormous archive and an enormous body of search traffic, and then the line-up was restructured. The historical draws keep their original codes, because a result sheet is a permanent record and renaming it retroactively would break every reference to it.

The practical implication is a small trap. If you search a retired code, you will find pages, and some of those pages will be aggregators that have never been updated and are still presenting old results in a “today’s result” layout. Check the date on any sheet before you read the numbers on it. Our guide to checking a result by draw number covers this verification step by step.

The BR Bumper Series Is Different

Bumper draws sit outside the weekly rotation entirely. They are run around festivals and seasons, tickets go on sale weeks or months ahead, the ticket price is higher than a weekly ticket, and the prize structure is built differently. The draw date is announced rather than falling on a fixed weekday, and the sale period usually closes well before the draw itself.

For anyone reading a bumper result sheet for the first time, the layout will feel familiar but the tier structure will not — there are typically fewer, larger prizes at the top and a different distribution below. The claim process is the same as for any Kerala prize, and it is set out in our prize claim, deadline and TDS guide.

Using the Code to Find the Sheet

The whole point of understanding the code system is that it makes you independent of aggregators. With the code from your ticket you can go directly to the official archive, find the exact sheet, and confirm the date on it — no search results, no forwarded screenshots, no unofficial mirrors. Our worked example of that process is the SM-65 draw code explainer, and the weekly pattern behind the rotation is in the Kerala lottery weekly draw schedule.

For the two tickets this blog covers in most depth, see the Sthree Sakthi (SS) guide and the Karunya Plus (KN) guide. Neither publishes winning numbers either — the rule applies across the whole site.

Play Responsibly (18+)

No code, number, date or system changes the odds of a lottery draw — a draw is random, and past results carry no information about future ones. Buy tickets and play games only with money you are comfortable losing. You must be 18 or older to play on this site, online gaming rules vary between Indian states, and no outcome is ever guaranteed. Our budget basics guide covers setting a limit you will actually keep, and the overview of problem gambling is worth reading if it has stopped feeling like entertainment.

Conclusion

Letters for the ticket, number for the draw, official archive for the sheet, and a date check before you trust anything. That is the whole code system, and knowing it makes Kerala’s lottery archive genuinely easy to navigate. More from Dhani Game: the SM-65 explainer, the result-day instant games guide, or the Dhani Game lottery page.