Matka Glossary: Panna, Ank, Jodi, Sangam and More
Matka has a vocabulary of roughly two dozen words, most of them Hindi or Marathi in origin, and result pages use them without explanation. This glossary defines each one in plain English and, wherever a number helps, points at the same sample line: 227-19-450. Read it once from top to bottom, then keep it as a lookup.
The sample line, decoded once
Open panna 227. 2 + 2 + 7 makes 11; the open ank is the 1 at the end. Close panna 450. 4 + 5 + 0 makes 9; the close ank is 9. Write the open's digit before the close's and the pair is 19. The open panna is a double (the 2 repeats); the close panna is a single (no repeat).
A to Z
| Term | Meaning | On 227-19-450 |
|---|---|---|
| Ank | A single digit from 0 to 9. A panna's ank is the units digit of its three digits added together. | Open ank 1, close ank 9 |
| Bazar (market) | A named schedule of draws with its own opening hour, closing hour and day off. The rules are identical across bazars. | Could be any board on the time table |
| Close | The second draw of a sitting, and any wager settled on it. | 450, ank 9 |
| Cut ank | The digit five steps further round the dial: add 5, drop any ten. Partnerships: 0 and 5, 1 and 6, 2 and 7, 3 and 8, 4 and 9. | Cut of 1 is 6; cut of 9 is 4 |
| Cycle (cycle patti) | A two-digit combination; a cycle bet covers the ten pannas that contain both digits. | Cycle 45 includes 450 |
| Double panna (DP) | A panna carrying a repeated digit. There are 90. | 227 |
| Family (jodi family) | The set of up to eight pairs reached by swapping either digit of a jodi for its cut and allowing both orders. | 19 sits with 14, 69, 64, 91, 41, 96 and 46 |
| Final ank | Add the two anks together and keep the units digit. Sometimes called the total of the pair; ten jodis share each final ank. | 1 + 9 = 10, so the final ank is 0 |
| Full sangam | A wager naming both pannas of a sitting. | 227 with 450 |
| Half sangam | A wager naming the ank of one side and the panna of the other. | 1 with 450, or 227 with 9 |
| Holiday (off day) | A date with no draw for that market. Charts show a double star in that cell. | No line at all |
| Jodi (pair) | Two digits: the open digit ahead of the close digit. One hundred exist, 00 to 99. | 19 |
| Jodi chart | A week-per-row grid of one market's pairs, one per day, with the pannas left out. | The cell would read 19 |
| Matka | Literally an earthen pot; also the game itself, descended from betting on cotton prices in Bombay before 1962. | The game as a whole |
| Motor (SP or DP motor) | A bundle of every single panna, or every double panna, that a chosen set of digits can form. | Digits 2, 4, 5, 7 give a DP motor that includes 227 |
| Open | The first draw of a sitting, and any wager settled on it. | 227, ank 1 |
| Panel chart | The same week-per-row grid carrying each day's complete line, both pannas and the pair. | The cell would show 227, 19 and 450 |
| Panna (patti) | Three digits, listed smallest first with any zero at the end. 220 exist. | 227 and 450 |
| Red jodi | A pair of twin digits (00, 11, through to 99) or a digit beside its own cut (05, 50, 16, 61 and so forth). Shaded on charts. | 19 is not red; 14 or 11 would be |
| Result (line) | The full declaration, printed as open panna, pair, close panna. | 227-19-450 |
| Single ank | A wager on one digit for one side. | 1 on open, or 9 on close |
| Single panna (SP) | A panna with no repeated digit. There are 120. | 450 |
| Starline | An hourly game: about one draw per hour, each a lone panna and its ank, with no close and no pair. | A slot might read 227-1 and stop there |
| Triple panna (TP) | A panna with all three digits alike. There are 10. | None on this line; 222 would be one |
Pairs of words that get swapped
- Ank and total. The total of 227 is 11. Its ank is 1. Only the ank is ever printed on a result.
- Jodi and half sangam. Two anks make a jodi; an ank beside a whole panna makes a half sangam.
- Single ank and single panna. Said alone, single tends to mean one digit; a single panna means three unlike digits.
- Panna and patti. The same object. Western and southern readers tend to say patti, northern readers panna.
- Open and morning. Open is the first draw of any sitting, including a night sitting. A morning market is a board that runs early in the day.
How the counts fit together
| Set | Size | Reference page |
|---|---|---|
| Anks | 10 | Any digit 0 to 9 |
| Jodis | 100 | 100 jodi chart |
| Red jodis | 20 of those 100 | Marked on the same chart |
| Pannas | 220 (120 single, 90 double, 10 triple) | 220 panna chart |
| Cut partnerships | 5, covering all 10 digits | cut ank chart |
| Jodi families | The 100 jodis grouped by cut relations | jodi family chart |
| Final anks | 10, each produced by ten jodis | final ank record |
Using the words on Satta Matka Global
On a market page the first panna and its digit go up immediately, the close half staying as stars until it lands, after which the line is complete. The charts index leads to both charts of every market, which the chart guide explains row by row. Wagers built from these words, with a worked example for each, are in matka bet types, and the multipliers usually attached to them are in the rates guide. If you have never taken a line apart before, the beginner walkthrough comes first.
A word about the reader
Definitions are not encouragement. Satta Matka Global is for adults (18+), and it deals in declared numbers and their charts, nothing more. Most Indian states treat matka wagering as an offence, a few regulate it, and it is your own state's statute that counts. Every term above describes something that has already been declared; none of them helps anyone know what will be declared next.
What is the difference between panna and patti?
None. Both words mean the three-digit figure declared at either draw. Patti is heard more in Maharashtra and the south, panna more in the north.
Why is the ank of 227 written as 1 and not 11?
Because the ank is only the units digit of the digit total. 2 + 2 + 7 is 11, and the units digit of 11 is 1. The full total never appears on a result.
Is a red jodi a special kind of bet?
No. Red is shading used on charts for the ten twin pairs and the ten cut pairs. Playing reds simply means placing twenty separate jodi wagers, one on each of those pairs.
Does Starline have a jodi?
No. Each Starline draw is one panna and its ank, about once an hour. With no close panna in the same slot there is nothing to pair, so no jodi exists on that board.