Every afternoon, thousands of people across Meghalaya, Assam, and the rest of Northeast India wait for two numbers. Those numbers, the First Round (FR) and Second Round (SR), are the Shillong Teer result. But how exactly are they produced? What actually happens at the Polo Ground that determines whether today's result is 45 or 72?
This article walks through the complete process, from archers drawing their bows to the moment the two-digit result is announced, in plain, simple language.
Shillong Teer takes place at the historic Polo Ground in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya. It is organized and regulated by the Khasi Hills Archery Sports Association (KHASA), a licensed body that has been running this game for decades. The game is legal under the Meghalaya Amusements and Participation Tax (Amendment) Act.
The venue sees hundreds of licensed archers every day, Monday through Saturday. Each archer belongs to a registered archery club affiliated with KHASA.
Licensed archers gather at the Polo Ground. The number of participating archers varies but is typically several hundred per round. Each archer is allocated a fixed number of arrows to shoot.
A large cylindrical target, called the teer target, is set up at a fixed distance. All archers shoot their arrows at this target within a fixed time window, usually a few minutes per round. For readers curious about the sport itself, a wide range of recurve bows and archery target sets is available for practice at home.
Once the shooting is complete, officials count the total number of arrows that successfully hit the target. This counting is done carefully by authorised KHASA officials. The total hit count is the key number.
The result is simply the last two digits of the total arrow count that hit the target.
Example: If 1,245 arrows hit the target → Last two digits = 45 → Result is 45
If the count ends in a single digit (e.g., 1,208), the result is displayed as 08. The result is always a two-digit number between 00 and 99.
Shillong Teer runs two rounds every day, which is why there are always two results, FR and SR.
The First Round (FR) result is typically declared around 3:45 PM IST. Approximately one hour later, the Second Round (SR) result is announced at around 4:45 PM IST. These times can vary by 5–10 minutes depending on the pace of shooting and counting on a given day.
⚠ Note: Shillong Teer is only held Monday to Saturday. There are no results on Sundays. During public holidays in Meghalaya, results may also be unavailable.
The result is always presented as two separate two-digit numbers:
Both numbers are always between 00 and 99. A result of 00 means the total arrow count ended in 00, it is a valid result, not an error.
The moment KHASA declares the official result at the Polo Ground, news spreads quickly. InstantTeerResults.in fetches results from multiple verified sources using an automated system that runs every 5 minutes. Most results appear on this site within 5 minutes of official declaration.
You can check the Shillong Teer result page for today's live FR and SR numbers, or join the Telegram channel for automatic result alerts.
Every day is different at the Polo Ground. The number of participating archers changes. The number of arrows each archer shoots can vary. And of course, the accuracy of each archer on that day determines how many arrows actually hit the target. This natural variation is why the result changes every day, making any day-to-day "prediction" mathematically impossible.
The result is a direct outcome of a physical archery event, not a draw, not a random number generator, and not predetermined. It is exactly as official and unpredictable as the final score of any sports event.
Most days the total arrow count lands on a clean two-digit number with no ambiguity. But edge cases do come up, and the rule book at the Polo Ground addresses each one:
00. This is a valid, declarable outcome and not a re-shoot. Players who hold ticket number 00 are paid out the same as any other winning number.06.FR and SR are physically separate rounds with their own archery sessions, their own count, and their own outcome. The number declared in the First Round has no mechanical bearing on what comes out of the Second Round, because the archers shoot fresh arrows in a fresh session. The two rounds simply share a venue and a day. Treating them as connected, in the sense of "if FR was 38, SR is more likely to be X", has no basis in the physical mechanics of the game.
What does happen is that the Polo Ground audience and the wider Teer-following community begin to discuss the FR result almost immediately, well before SR shooting starts. That is a social phenomenon, not a statistical one. The arrows for SR are unaffected by anyone's interpretation of FR.
Three independent groups touch the count before a result becomes official:
Only after all three steps complete is the number considered final. This is also why third-party result-publishing sites (including this one) wait for the official announcement before publishing, instead of guessing from partial information. A number that has not yet been signed off is not yet a result.
Once the declared FR or SR is announced at the Polo Ground, several things happen almost simultaneously:
What does not happen is any back-channel "advance leak". Because the result is the physical outcome of arrows that have just been shot and counted, there is no opportunity for the result to exist anywhere before the count is done. Any service that claims to know a result before it has been declared is selling guesswork, not information.
It is useful to draw a quick contrast with state-run lotteries, because the comparison shows why Shillong Teer fits a different legal category. In a typical lottery, the winning number is generated by a draw of physical balls or by a regulated random number generator. The numbers exist before they are drawn. In Shillong Teer, the number does not exist until the arrows have been shot and counted, because it is computed from the physical event. That is the structural reason Meghalaya's framework classifies Teer as an archery-based sport rather than as a lottery, and why the regulatory framework around it is sport-specific.
For readers interested in the legal side, our piece on the Meghalaya Amusements Act walks through the two state laws that govern Teer in detail.
Mistakes are rare but not impossible. The error sources that the counting process is designed to catch include:
If any of these issues leads to an error that is caught after announcement, KHASA corrects it on the record and notifies the recognised result aggregators. Our methodology page explains how we handle such corrections on this site.
The First Round (FR) result is declared at approximately 3:45 PM IST, Monday to Saturday. Exact timing can vary by a few minutes.
The Second Round (SR) result is declared at approximately 4:45 PM IST, about one hour after the First Round.
Archers shoot arrows at a cylindrical target. The total arrows that hit the target are counted. The last two digits of that total form the result. Example: 1,245 hits → result is 45.
FR = First Round (shooting session 1, result ~3:45 PM). SR = Second Round (shooting session 2, result ~4:45 PM). Both produce a separate two-digit number.
No. Shillong Teer does not take place on Sundays. Results are declared Monday to Saturday only.
Live FR and SR results updated within minutes of official declaration. No refresh needed.
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