Karunya Plus (KN) Kerala Lottery Result

Karunya Plus is one of the seven weekly paper tickets run by the Kerala State Lotteries Department — the first government-run lottery in India, operating since the mid-1960s. Every weekday has its own named ticket with its own series code, and Karunya Plus occupies the Thursday slot. The wider “Karunya” family of tickets has historically been associated with the state's welfare and medical-assistance funding, which is a large part of why the name is so recognisable across Kerala.

Two things matter for anyone searching for a result. First, Karunya Plus is a physical ticket sold through licensed agents inside Kerala — there is no official online purchase channel, and anyone offering to sell you one over chat should be treated with suspicion. Second, the result is a published government document, not a screenshot. Once the draw is complete, the department compiles a gazette listing every winning number by prize tier, and that document is the only thing that decides whether a ticket has won.

To be completely clear about who we are: 66Lottery is an online gaming platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or operated on behalf of the Kerala State Lotteries Department. We write these guides because our players search for them, and we point every result question back to the official source rather than republishing numbers we cannot vouch for.

Indicative format details only. Draw days and timings can be rescheduled around bumper draws and public holidays — confirm against the official Kerala State Lotteries gazette.

The KN draw is a supervised public event held in Thiruvananthapuram. Numbers are drawn mechanically in front of officials and read out in prize order — the first prize first, then the consolation prize, then each descending tier. The reading itself takes a while, which is why partial results circulate before the complete sheet exists.

The practical rhythm looks like this: the draw begins in the early afternoon, the live reading finishes roughly around 3:00 PM IST, and the typed, checked and signed gazette PDF appears afterwards — sometimes within the hour, sometimes later on busy weeks. Search traffic for “Karunya Plus result today” spikes precisely in that gap, and so does the circulation of unverified images.

Our advice is simple and slightly boring: wait for the gazette. A ticket does not lose value because you checked it forty minutes later, but acting on a wrong number can cost you a torn ticket, a wasted trip to an agent, or worse, a response to a scam message. For how the Thursday slot fits the rest of the week, see our Kerala lottery Thursday draw guide.

Before you can check anything you need to read your own ticket properly. A Kerala ticket carries four pieces of information that all have to line up with the result sheet:

• • The lottery name and draw code — “Karunya Plus” with the KN code, telling you which sheet to open.
• • The draw number — a sequential number identifying that specific Thursday's draw.
• • The draw date — the single easiest thing to get wrong when a sheet from the previous week is still open in a browser tab.
• • The series letter and ticket number — tickets are printed in parallel series, so the same digits exist across several series. The series letter is what separates a first prize from a consolation prize.

That last point is the one most people skim past. Because Kerala prints the same numeric range across multiple series, a number that matches the first prize digits but sits in a different series is not the first-prize ticket — it is a consolation-tier ticket, which is exactly why the consolation prize exists in the first place.

Every Kerala weekly result follows the same shape. Understanding that shape is more useful than memorising any single week's numbers, because the layout never changes even though the numbers and amounts do:

• • A single first prize, awarded to one complete ticket number in one series.
• • A consolation prize paid on tickets carrying the first-prize number in the other series.
• • A descending ladder of second, third, fourth and fifth prizes, each listing a set of full ticket numbers.
• • Several lower tiers decided on the last four digits only, which is where the large majority of actual payouts happen.

We deliberately do not print prize amounts here. The department revises the value of each tier periodically, and a stale figure copied around the internet does more harm than good. For the tier logic, ticket pricing and how the money is distributed, read our companion piece on the Karunya Plus prize structure and ticket price, and confirm every figure against the official Kerala State Lotteries gazette.

One structural detail worth internalising: because the bottom tiers only require the last four digits to match, a great many tickets that “lose” the headline prize still appear somewhere on the sheet. Reading only the first line of the gazette and closing it is the single most common way to miss a small win.

1. 1Read the ticket first. Confirm the name is Karunya Plus, note the KN code, the draw number, the draw date and your series letter.
2. 2Open the official source. Go to the Kerala State Lotteries website or the published gazette for that exact draw date — not last week’s tab, not a forwarded PDF.
3. 3Match the first prize and consolation. Compare the full number, then check whether your series letter is the winning one or a consolation series.
4. 4Work down every tier in order. Second through fifth list full numbers; the lower tiers list four-digit endings only.
5. 5Re-read digit by digit. Say the numbers aloud or check them against the ticket twice before you conclude anything.
6. 6If it wins, protect the ticket. Keep it flat, undamaged and unsigned away from strangers, and start the claim within the official window with photo ID.

The primary source for step two is the Kerala State Lotteries Department, which publishes the gazette for every draw. Treat anything else — including this page — as explanation, not evidence.

The claim side — deadlines, documents, agent versus bank payouts and the tax position — is covered in detail in how to claim a Kerala lottery prize.

Most result-day disappointment is a checking error rather than bad luck. These are the recurring ones:

• • Wrong draw date. Kerala publishes a sheet every single day of the week. Opening Wednesday's Fifty-Fifty result and looking for a KN number is a guaranteed dead end.
• • Ignoring the series letter. Matching digits in the wrong series is a consolation situation, not a first prize.
• • Stopping at the top. The lower four-digit tiers are where most real payouts sit.
• • Trusting a forwarded image. Screenshots are trivially editable and lose their origin the moment they are forwarded.
• • Damaging the ticket. Folding, tearing or writing on a ticket can complicate a claim. Keep it flat until you have checked.
• • Chasing the next ticket after a near miss. A number that was “one digit away” does not mean anything about the next draw. Each draw is independent.

Two distinct problems circulate around every Kerala draw, and they deserve to be separated. The first is the premature result: an image posted before the gazette exists, sometimes a genuine partial reading, sometimes an invention. It is not malicious in every case, but it is unreliable by definition.

The second is deliberate fraud. A message tells you a ticket has won and asks for a “processing fee”, “clearance charge” or “tax deposit” before the prize can be released. This is a textbook advance-fee scam. State it plainly to yourself and to anyone in your family who buys tickets: you never pay a fee to claim a Kerala lottery prize. Genuine claims run through authorised agents, banks and the department, and any deduction is made from the prize itself, never collected from you in advance.

A related warning applies to anyone offering to sell Karunya Plus tickets online, or to “check” a ticket for a small charge. Official tickets are physical and sold in person by licensed agents; official results are free and public. If money is being requested at any point in the checking process, you are not dealing with the Kerala State Lotteries Department.

Kerala runs a named ticket every day, and knowing the line-up stops you opening the wrong sheet. Karunya Plus (KN) is the Thursday draw; Sthree Sakthi is Tuesday; the original Karunya sits on Saturday, which is the source of endless confusion between the two Karunya tickets. They are separate lotteries with separate series codes and separate prize tables.

The full seven-day line-up is laid out in our Kerala lottery weekly draw schedule, and Tuesday's ticket has its own walkthrough in the Sthree Sakthi result guide. If you are searching more broadly across states, the north-eastern draws are covered in our Nagaland State Lottery (Lottery Sambad) guide, which runs three separate result windows a day rather than one.

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