SA PowerBall predictions for today
Three SA PowerBall sets for 9 September 2026, each built from all 1 217 draws on record. The numbers that come up most often are 3, 13, 15, 20, 24. The ones that have gone longest without appearing are 1, 28, 30, 33, 35.
This is the SA PowerBall prediction for today, 9 September 2026, given as three sets rather than one guess. Each one is a rule applied to every SA PowerBall draw on record, 1 217 of them going back to 2 January 2015, and the rule is printed underneath so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
Most-frequent set
- 3
- 13
- 15
- 20
- 24
The rule: The 5 balls with the highest appearance rate across all 1 217 SA PowerBall draws. Rate is appearances divided by the draws that ball could appear in, not a raw count, so balls added when the pool widened are not punished for being younger. Ties are settled on the lower number.
Bet this set at Easybet →Ball 20 leads on 12.33%, drawn 150 times in the 1 217 draws it could have appeared in.
Overdue set
- 1
- 28
- 30
- 33
- 35
The rule: The 5 balls that have gone the longest without being drawn, counted in draws rather than days. Ties are settled on the lower number.
Bet this set at Easybet →Ball 35 has not appeared for 37 draws. Its longest recorded absence is 52.
Balanced set
- 3
- 20
- 24
- 31
- 43
The rule: The range 1 to 50 is split into 5 equal bands and the highest-rate ball is taken from each, so the set is spread across the whole range instead of clustering at one end.
Bet this set at Easybet →Built from 1 217 draws, one ball per band of roughly 10 numbers.
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SA PowerBall hot and cold numbers
The hot numbers are the balls with the highest appearance rate across all 1 217 draws. The cold numbers are the lowest. Full working, ball by ball, is on the SA PowerBall number statistics page.
Hot numbers
20 24 15 13 3 43
Cold numbers
47 50 46 48 49 1
SA PowerBall hot pairs: numbers drawn together most often
Everyone publishes single hot numbers. Almost nobody publishes pairs, so here they are. These are the two-ball combinations that have come up together most often in 1 217 SA PowerBall draws. A pair is counted only against draws in which both of its balls were in the pool.
| Pair | Times together | Out of | Rate | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 & 24 | 27 | 1 217 | 2.22% | 28 August 2026 |
| 15 & 24 | 25 | 1 217 | 2.05% | 31 March 2026 |
| 20 & 43 | 21 | 1 217 | 1.73% | 16 June 2026 |
| 29 & 38 | 21 | 1 217 | 1.73% | 4 August 2026 |
| 3 & 13 | 20 | 1 217 | 1.64% | 26 September 2025 |
| 3 & 40 | 20 | 1 217 | 1.64% | 11 August 2026 |
| 16 & 18 | 20 | 1 217 | 1.64% | 7 July 2026 |
| 24 & 38 | 20 | 1 217 | 1.64% | 4 August 2026 |
| 24 & 44 | 20 | 1 217 | 1.64% | 24 October 2025 |
| 12 & 29 | 19 | 1 217 | 1.56% | 23 December 2025 |
| 13 & 20 | 19 | 1 217 | 1.56% | 10 July 2026 |
| 20 & 24 | 19 | 1 217 | 1.56% | 15 May 2026 |
Do SA PowerBall predictions actually work?
No, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. A lottery draw has no memory. Every ball has exactly the same chance in the next SA PowerBall draw whatever it has done before, a ball being overdue does not make it more likely, and a pair coming up often does not make it come up again. Nothing on this page improves your odds.
What these sets do give you is a way of picking that is not random guessing and not somebody's hunch: a stated rule, applied to 1 217 real draws, that you can check yourself. If you were going to pick numbers anyway, pick them from something with its working shown.
Sets built 9 September 2026 from 1 217 SA PowerBall draws, 2 January 2015 to 8 September 2026. Sources: South African National Lottery, advbet lottery backend, za.national-lottery.com. See the SA PowerBall results archive and the full number statistics.