Dream guide: the fafi number for what you dreamed

A dream guide maps what you dreamed to a number, and in South Africa that number is a fafi number, played on the Lucky Numbers draws. This page holds three things: our recorded list for 11 common dreams, the fafi chart from 1 to 49, and beside every number a count of how often it has actually come up in the UK49s lunchtime and teatime draws.

The associations are tradition, not a system, and they change nothing about the odds. Where the published charts disagree with each other, both readings are printed.

Fafi numbers are an oral tradition with regional variation, and published lists disagree. In the dream list a number is shown only where our source records one. Every 49s draw is independent. What follows is a record of past draws, and a record cannot tell you what comes next.

Dreams with a recorded number

Recorded in the SA Dream Guide build kit held in this workspace (2026-05-20). That document names no upstream source, so the mapping is published here as a recorded tradition, not as a verified fact.

The fafi chart, 1 to 49

The bookmaker chart as printed by the South African operators, cleaned of the copy-paste errors listed below, with the classical 36-number wheel beside it where a symbol is documented outside the bookmaker guides. The last two columns are real counts: how many times that ball has come out in 2 687 lunchtime and 2 843 teatime draws.

No.	On the chart	Classical wheel	Lunchtime	Teatime
1	King, Human blood, White man, Left eye	king	332	320
2	Monkey, A spirit, Chief, Copper, Money, Jockey	monkey	342	372
3	Sea water, Accident, Frog, Sailor, Sex	sea / water	355	402
4	Dead man, Turkey, Small fortune, Bed	dead man	307	336
5	Tiger, Fight, Strong man	tiger	327	337
6	Ox blood, Gentleman, Milk	ox	345	358
7	Lion, Thief, Big stick, Chickens	skelm (thief)	314	337
8	Pig, Drunken man, Loafer, Fat man, Chinese king	pig	314	332
9	Moon, Baby, Hole, Owl, Devil, Pumpkin, Anything round	moon	319	366
10	Eggs, Train, Boat, Grave, Anything oval	eggs	331	307
11	Carriage, Wood, Tree, Furniture, Bicycle, Flowers	carriage	324	374
12	Dead woman, Ducks, Small fire, Chinese queen	dead woman	344	359
13	Big fish, Ghosts, Spirits	big fish	326	335
14	Old woman, Fox, Detective, Nurse	old woman	323	356
15	Bad woman, Prostitute, Canary, White horse, Small knife	bad woman	308	347
16	Small house, Coffin, Pigeon, Young woman, Paper money, Letter	pigeons	336	331
17	Diamond woman, Queen, Pearls, Diamond, Stars, White woman	diamond lady	349	348
18	Silver money, Servant girl, Right eye, Butterfly, Hook, Rain	small change	336	336
19	Little girl, Smoke, Bread, Big bird, Left hand	little girl	361	364
20	Cat, Sky, Handkerchief, Body, Music, Minister, Naked woman	cat	357	369
21	Old man, Stranger, Fisherman, Elephant, Knife, Nose, Teeth	ship	308	332
22	Rats, Motor car, Big ship, Left foot, Shoes	elephant	341	346
23	Horse, Doctor, Head, Hair, Crown	horse	340	340
24	Mouth, Wild cat, Vixen, Lioness, Purse	mouth	351	358
25	Big house, Church, Boxer, Hospital	jail / big house	305	363
26	Bees, Bad man, Bush, General, Funeral, Madman	bees	337	327
27	Dog, Policeman, Newborn baby, Medicine, Sad news	dog	322	331
28	Sardines, Small fish, Thief, Right foot, Surprise, Small child	herrings	316	316
29	Small water, Coffin, Rain, Tears, Big knife, Right hand	small water	314	331
30	Fowl, Graveyard, Sun, Throat, Forest	fowl	321	331
31	Big fire, Bishop, Big spirit, Feathers, Fight, Woman	fire	320	367
32	Gold money, Snake	gold / money	331	324
33	Little boy, Spider	little boy	296	363
34	Meat, Human dung, Anything dirty, Cripple, Tramp	dung	313	355
35	Clothes, Sheep, Big hole, Big grave	(adult symbol in some historical lists)	319	363
36	Shrimp, Stick, Admiral, Cigars, Gum	lobster	305	325
37	Arrow, Lawyer, Treasure, Cooking, Stream		342	357
38	Crocodile, Balloons, Sjambok, Fireworks, Stadium		326	345
39	Sangoma, Soccer team, Tattoos, Bloodshed, Teacher		342	360
40	Birth, Clock, Snail, Dwarf, River, Traditional healer		358	368
41	Cattle, Planets, Cave, Desert, Monster		339	342
42	Tornado, Spear, Umbrella, Camel, Door		322	346
43	Army, Thunder, Astronaut, Rabbit, Turtle		346	323
44	Shark, Stud farm, Body builder, Injury, Mud		336	381
45	Football, Computers, Jewellery, Wrestler, Storm		340	355
46	Ambulance, Beard, Sea sand, Scissors, Key		329	373
47	Stallion, Kite, TV, Lightning, Carnival, Hut		347	347
48	Clown, Rainbow, Nightmare, Whale, Wealth		313	345
49	Shebeen, Circus, Chocolate, Space ship		293	358

Beyond the 49s board the bookmaker charts continue: 50 bathroom, magic, revolution, trap, wheat; 51 car, carrot, orange, vulture, wasp; 52 brush, eagle, salon, shower, trumpet. Those numbers cannot be played on a 49-ball draw.

Where the charts disagree

Every South African operator's dream guide descends from the same list, errors included. These are the ones found when the chart above was built, each checked on the day given.

"Sea and Scissors" at 46: corruption of "Sea sand; Scissors". Found on central.bet.co.za and blog.hollywoodbets.net (identical string); checked live 2026-07-02.
"Stun" at 30: corruption of "Sun". Found on insights.betfred.co.za (live) and sunbet.co.za (archived); Betfred checked live 2026-07-02; Sunbet via Internet Archive snapshots 2025-12-13 and 2026-01-14 (sunbet.co.za blocks non-SA access).
Water listed at both 15 and 3 on one page: internal contradiction. Found on central.bet.co.za A-Z guide; checked live 2026-07-02.
Big house at both 25 and 29 on one page: internal contradiction. Found on sunbet.co.za lucky-number guide; Internet Archive snapshot 2025-12-13 (site blocks non-SA access).
Cow at 18 in one guide, 41 in its sister guide: same operator, two conflicting charts. Found on sunbet.co.za fafi guide vs lucky-number guide; Internet Archive snapshots 2026-01-14 and 2025-12-13 (site blocks non-SA access).
Template junk shipped live ("Name 2 | 36"): unfilled placeholder row. Found on sportsnews.worldsportsbetting.co.za dream guide; checked live 2026-07-02.

Our own dream list and the chart also part company 2 times: paper money is recorded as 2 or 16 under the name "money", while the chart puts money at 2; teeth falling out is recorded as 21 under the name "the mouth", while the chart puts mouth at 24. Both are printed, because that disagreement is the tradition as it actually is.

Two numbers on the source charts carry colonial-era descriptors for people. They are not reproduced here; the numbers keep their other symbols.

Dreams with no recorded number

Our source records no number for these, so none is invented. The chart above is the place to look for them.

a dead person who is alive crying being shot bees fire washing yourself getting married running playing soccer menstruating being robbed a white person being naked buying new clothes getting a job many cattle flying being rained on praying your late mother being drunk urinating vomiting

Questions

What is a fafi dream guide?

A list that maps what you dreamed to a number, from fafi, the numbers game that has run in South Africa since at least the 1950s. Bookmakers reuse the same chart for Lucky Numbers betting. The classical game has 36 numbers; the bookmaker charts stretch it to 49 or 52 so it covers the modern draws.

What number is a snake in fafi?

32 on every chart we hold, listed beside gold money. Our own dream list records 32 for a snake as well, and the table on this page shows how often 32 has come up.

What number is money in a dream?

The chart spreads it out: 2 for money, 18 for silver money, 32 for gold money and 16 for paper money. Pick by the detail of the dream rather than the word.

Does a dream number change my chances?

No. A number tied to a dream has exactly the same chance as any other, and the counts beside each number are there so that can be checked rather than believed.

My dream is not on the list. What then?

Read the chart column. Most things people dream about sit on it somewhere, and where a symbol appears on two numbers both are printed rather than one picked for you.

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