Heinz Calculator
A Heinz places 57 bets on 6 selections: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and the six-fold. There are no singles, so one winner returns nothing at any price. Enter your odds, mark each selection won or lost, and the page settles all 57 lines — then shows the price two winners need before the bet returns its own outlay, and how the same money would have fared as a Lucky 63.
The stake covers each of the 57 bets, so a £1.00 Heinz costs £57.00 in total.
Win-only settlement, and no bonus boxes: the double-odds consolation and the all-winners bonus belong to the Lucky family, not to the Heinz. A bookmaker who offers either on a Heinz is offering something non-standard, so read the terms on your own account rather than assuming them.
Bet-by-Bet Breakdown
| Bet Type | Bets | Won | Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doubles | 15 | 15 | £295.00 |
| Trebles | 20 | 20 | £1665.00 |
| Four-Folds | 15 | 15 | £5104.00 |
| Five-Folds | 6 | 6 | £8028.00 |
| Six-Fold | 1 | 1 | £5040.00 |
The trebles are the biggest block on the slip: 20 of the 57 lines, 35.1% of your outlay, against 15 in the doubles and one solitary six-fold.
What Each Outcome Would Pay
The same six prices, settled at every number of winners. The order matters here in a way it does not on a Lucky 63: with no singles to fall back on, which two selections win decides everything.
| Outcome | Selections | Return | Profit / Loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 winner — longest price | #6 | £0.00 | −£57.00 |
| 2 winners — shortest pair | #1, #2 | £6.00 | −£51.00 |
| 2 winners — longest pair | #5, #6 | £42.00 | −£15.00 |
| 3 winners — shortest three | #1, #2, #3 | £50.00 | −£7.00 |
| 4 winners — shortest four | #1, #2, #3, #4 | £345.00 | £288.00 |
| 5 winners — shortest five | #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 | £2499.00 | £2442.00 |
| All 6 winners | #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 | £20132.00 | £20075.00 |
Your Results
Two-Winner Break-Even
7.55
With exactly two winners only one line pays — the double joining them — so the two prices multiplied together have to reach 57. At equal prices that is 7.55 each. Your two longest prices multiply to 42.00, which does not clear it.
Same Outlay as a Lucky 63
£57.00 spread over 63 lines instead of 57 (£0.90 per bet, six singles added) returns £18239.10 on these results.
The Heinz is £1892.90 better on this outcome: fewer lines, more money on each one.
Win-only calculation. An each-way Heinz doubles the bet count to 114 and applies place terms to the second half — see the Each-Way Calculator.
How a Heinz Is Calculated
Each of the 57 bets is settled on its own: every possible double, treble, four-fold and five-fold across the six selections, plus the six-fold that needs all of them. Any line containing a losing selection returns nothing; every other line still stands. What a Heinz does not contain is a single, and that omission is the whole character of the bet — one winner pays nothing whatsoever, whether it is priced at 2.00 or 200.00.
Take a £1 Heinz (total outlay £57.00) on six selections at decimal odds of 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00 and 7.00, with all six winning:
| Bet Type | Maths (£1 per bet) | Return |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Doubles | 6 + 8 + 10 + 12 + 12 + 14 + 15 + 18 + 20 + 21 + 24 + 28 + 30 + 35 + 42 | £295.00 |
| 20 Trebles | 24 + 30 + … + 210 (twenty lines) | £1,665.00 |
| 15 Four-Folds | 120 + 144 + … + 840 (fifteen lines) | £5,104.00 |
| 6 Five-Folds | 720 + 840 + 1,008 + 1,260 + 1,680 + 2,520 | £8,028.00 |
| 1 Six-Fold | 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × 7 = 5,040 | £5,040.00 |
| Total return | 295 + 1,665 + 5,104 + 8,028 + 5,040 | £20,132.00 |
| Profit on £57.00 | 20,132 − 57 | £20,075.00 |
Notice where the money comes back from. The single six-fold pays £5,040 of the £20,132, but the six five-folds together pay £8,028 — more than the accumulator that needed every leg. The lines that make a Heinz worth its outlay are the ones just below the top, which is the argument for the structure over a straight six-fold on the same six selections. Our accumulator calculator prices that single line if you want the comparison.
The Two-Winner Rule, and Why It Is the Only One Worth Memorising
With exactly two winners a Heinz has one live line: the double that joins them. Everything else on the slip needs a third selection. That makes the break-even test unusually clean — multiply the two winning prices together and the product has to reach 57. At equal prices that is 7.55 each, which is √57 and nothing more mysterious than that. Two 4/1 shots at 5.00 multiply to 25.00 and leave you £32 down on the £57; two 8/1 shots at 9.00 multiply to 81.00 and clear it comfortably.
The same reasoning gives the rest of the column: 3.07 with three winners, 1.84 with four, 1.30 with five, and any price at all with six, because at six winners every one of the 57 lines has come in. Those numbers depend only on the ratio of selections to winners, not on how much you staked — the reason they are the same for a £1 Heinz and a £50 one, and the reason they belong on the page rather than in the calculator above.
Where the Six Singles Stop Being Worth Buying
A Lucky 63 is a Heinz with six singles added: 63 lines instead of 57, for 10.5% more outlay. That is the cheapest upgrade in the whole full-cover family — a Trixie to a Patent costs 75% more, a Yankee to a Lucky 15 costs 36.4% — and it is also the one that changes the least. Put the two break-even columns side by side and the reason is plain.
| Winners | Heinz (57) | Lucky 63 (63) | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 winner | nothing pays | 63.00 | a Heinz has no line that a single winner can complete |
| 2 winners | 7.55 | 7.00 | √57 against 2³ − 1 |
| 3 winners | 3.07 | 3.00 | the two structures have all but converged |
| 4 winners | 1.84 | 1.83 | one hundredth of a point apart |
| 5 winners | 1.30 | 1.30 | indistinguishable at two decimal places |
| 6 winners | any price | any price | every line on the slip has won |
From three winners upward the two columns are the same bet to two decimal places. Six singles out of 63 lines are 9.5% of the stake, and they only ever pay in the outcomes a six-selection backer has already written off. On a Patent the three singles are 42.9% of the slip and one winner out of three is an ordinary afternoon; on a Lucky 63 the six singles are small change spent on the outcome you were not playing for.
At the Same Outlay, the Singles Are Money Moved
Compare them properly — £63.00 either way, so £1.11 on each of the 57 Heinz lines against £1.00 on each of the 63 Lucky 63 lines — with all six selections priced at 3.00 (2/1):
| Winners | Heinz P/L | Lucky 63 P/L | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 or 1 | −£63.00 | −£63.00 / −£60.00 | the singles are the only difference |
| 2 | −£53.05 | −£48.00 | Lucky 63 ahead by £5.05 |
| 3 | −£3.32 | £0.00 | Lucky 63 ahead by £3.32 |
| 4 | +£205.58 | +£192.00 | Heinz ahead by £13.58 |
| 5 | +£1,051.11 | +£960.00 | Heinz ahead by £91.11 |
| 6 | +£4,443.16 | +£4,032.00 | Heinz ahead by £411.16 |
The singles are not cover bolted on top of the bet. They are paid for by shaving every multiple, and at 2/1 the trade turns over between three winners and four. Three winners is the row that catches the eye: the Lucky 63 lands exactly on its outlay while the Heinz is £3.32 short, and four winners is where the Heinz starts winning and never stops.
The Price at Which the Trade Reverses
2/1 is one price, and a table built on one price is an anecdote. Run the same equal-outlay comparison at every price and each row has its own crossover — the price above which the Heinz is the better use of the same £63:
| Outcome | Crossover Price | Roughly |
|---|---|---|
| 2 winners | 19.00 | 18/1 |
| 3 winners | 4.05 | just over 3/1 |
| 4 winners | 2.06 | just over evens |
| 5 winners | 1.35 | around 1/3 |
Read down the column and the shape of the answer appears: the six singles earn their place on short prices and poor days, and cost you on long prices and good ones. With six winners there is no crossover at all — the Heinz is ahead at every real price, because the singles have simply diluted 57 winning lines. With two winners the crossover is 19.00, which is another way of saying that if you are genuinely backing a pair of 18/1 shots to carry a six-selection slip you should not be buying singles, you should be buying doubles. How this pattern repeats across the smaller members of the family is set out in our comparison of full-cover bets, the same six selections with the singles added are settled by the Lucky 63 Calculator, and the five-selection version of the same choice is priced by the Canadian Calculator and the Lucky 31 Calculator.
What Sits Above a Heinz
The family carries on past six selections, and the outlay climbs far faster than the number of selections does. A seventh selection more than doubles the ticket; an eighth roughly doubles it again.
| Bet | Selections | Lines | 2 winners | 3 winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinz | 6 | 57 | 7.55 | 3.07 |
| Super Heinz | 7 | 120 | 10.95 | 4.11 |
| Goliath | 8 | 247 | 15.72 | 5.42 |
The break-even prices climb with them. Two winners on a Goliath need 15.72 apiece against 7.55 on a Heinz, because 247 lines have to be repaid by a single double. Adding selections to a full cover buys more ways to win and makes each of them repay more, and the second half of that sentence is the one the marketing leaves out. If you want the bet priced line by line rather than by family, the general bet calculator settles Super Heinz and Goliath slips as well.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Heinz bet?
A Heinz covers 6 selections with 57 separate bets: 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. There are no singles. The stake applies to each of the 57 lines, so a £1 Heinz costs £57.00 in total. The name comes from the 57 varieties on the Heinz label.
How many winners does a Heinz need to pay out?
Two. One winner completes no line on the slip and returns nothing at any price. Two winners pay the one double that joins them, and those two prices multiplied together have to reach 57 before the bet returns its own outlay — 7.55 each if the two are priced the same.
What is the difference between a Heinz and a Lucky 63?
A Lucky 63 is the same six selections with six singles added: 63 lines instead of 57, for 10.5% more outlay. At the same total outlay the Lucky 63 pays more when two or three selections win and the Heinz pays more when four or more do, with the crossover at 4.05 on three winners and 2.06 on four.
Do Heinz bets get the double-odds consolation?
Normally no. The single-winner consolation and the all-winners bonus are terms attached to the Lucky 15, Lucky 31 and Lucky 63, and a consolation for one winner cannot apply to a bet with no singles in the first place. Some bookmakers run their own promotions on multiples, so check the rules on your own account rather than assuming the Lucky terms carry over.
What happens to a Heinz if one selection is a non-runner?
The void leg is settled at odds of 1.00, so the bet collapses onto the remaining five selections: the six-fold becomes a five-fold, the five-folds containing the void leg become four-folds, and so on. Your outlay does not change — you still paid for 57 lines — which is why a non-runner is more expensive on a full cover than on an accumulator.
A Heinz stakes fifty-seven times your unit before a single race is run, and two of your six selections have to win before it returns a penny — set a budget for the full outlay before you start and never chase losses. 18+. If gambling stops being fun, see our responsible gambling resources.