Play PowerBall South Africa Online

How to Play SA Powerball Online

Play South African PowerBall online by choosing 5 numbers from 1-50 and a Powerball number from 1-20. Use your manual selection, or random selection (Quick Pick) to buy official lottery tickets online. theLotter also offers one-time standard entries as well as systematic forms. A Powerball ticket will be purchased on your behalf and scanned into your account before the draw. Find out all about How It Works.

SA PowerBall draws are staged every Tuesday and Friday at 21:00 South Africa Standard Time.

How Do You Win the PowerBall South Africa Jackpot?

If your SA PowerBall ticket matches the five main numbers and the additional Powerball number selected in the draw, you've won the  jackpot! The SA Powerball jackpot prize starts at a guaranteed R5 million with no rollover limit. This prize has gotten as high as R232 million (€14.5 million) - the lottery's record set in February 2019. Learn more about SA PowerBall with our guide to South African Lotteries.

Increase your chances of winning the jackpot by playing 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12-number systematic forms. Hit a winning combination and you will win multiple times with your tickets. Improve your odds of winning a prize by purchasing shares in a Powerball syndicate or combine your personal entry with group play by buying a bundle.

How to Save When You Play South African PowerBall Online

Enjoy amazing discounts when you play SA PowerBall online at theLotter! Save up to 25% when you buy a 5, 10, 25 or 52-draw South Africa PowerBall multi-draw, purchase a bundle with a built-in discount, or get every 7th ticket free when you buy a PowerBall subscription package.

How Do You Claim South Africa PowerBall Prizes at theLotter?

Receive free win alerts via email and SMS as soon as PowerBall lottery results are published. If you've won a South Africa PowerBall prize online, it will be directly transferred into your account after lottery draw results have been published and the prize money has been received from the official lottery operator. Larger prizes may need to be collected in person. All South Africa PowerBall prizes are paid out tax-FREE!

How Does South Africa's PowerBall Compare to the US Powerball?

The South Africa PowerBall is modelled after the US Powerball but offers a smaller guess range. Number selection in the South African Powerball is 5/50 + PB 1/20 while the number selection of the US Powerball is 5/69 + PB 1/26. Because of its bigger guess range, US Powerball jackpots tend to be much larger, however the odds of winning the SA PowerBall jackpot are better than the odds of winning the US Powerball jackpot!

Interesting News about the South Africa PowerBall

The game's largest ever jackpot dates back to the draw on 19 February 2019. A single ticket entitled one very lucky person to an extraordinary R232 million (€14.5 million) jackpot! The winning numbers were 14 18 21 26 35 PB: 5. This win also set a South Africa record by being the biggest jackpot ever awarded in the country.

SA PowerBall's second highest jackpot to date was won in the draw on 27 July, 2021. A single winning ticket entitles its owner to a jackpot worth R158,035,647.82 (€9.1 million). The winning ticket was purchased online with an app on the day of the draw and the winner, from North West, spent only R15 to participate. The numbers on the winning ticket were chosen manually, and they successfully matched the winning numbers drawn: 5, 2, 15, 28, 29, and the PowerBall number 14.