The History of Satta King
Satta King began in the pre-independence era as "Ankada Jugar", a wagering practice tied to cotton rates transmitted from the New York Cotton Exchange. After that source ended in 1961 it shifted to drawing numbers from a pot — the Matka — and later settled into the fixed-time daily draws named after places like Disawar, Gali and Faridabad.
Ankada Jugar: the earliest form
The earliest recognisable ancestor of Satta King was known as Ankada Jugar, literally "figures gambling". It was informal, local, and organised around numbers that arrived from outside rather than numbers generated for the game itself.
In its best-documented form, wagers were placed on the opening and closing rates of cotton transmitted to the Bombay Cotton Exchange from the New York Cotton Exchange. The appeal was simple: the number came from a source nobody in the room controlled.
The Matka era
When the New York Cotton Exchange stopped that practice in 1961, the game needed a new number source. The answer was a physical one — slips numbered 0 to 9 were placed in an earthen pot called a matka and drawn out, which is where the name Matka gambling comes from.
The matka itself eventually gave way to playing cards and other draw methods, but the name stuck. What carried forward from this era was the structure that still defines the game: a small set of digits, a fixed draw moment, and a single declared number.
How place names became game names
Modern Satta King games are named after places — Disawar, Gali, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Delhi Bazar. These names reflect where a particular draw was historically associated with, and they persisted as each draw settled into its own fixed daily time slot.
That fixed-time structure is the defining feature of the game today. Each name now functions less as a location than as a label for a specific slot in the daily schedule.
- Disawar — the earliest slot, declared at 05:10 AM.
- Faridabad and Ghaziabad — the evening slots, at 06:15 PM and 09:30 PM.
- Gali — the closing slot of the day, at 11:30 PM.
Where the charts come in
As the games settled into fixed schedules, the declared numbers began to be written down month by month. Those handwritten records are the direct ancestor of the monthly chart — the same grid of dates and months, now published online instead of on paper.
Satta is illegal in most of India. This page describes the history of the practice as a matter of public record; it is not an encouragement to take part in it.