Lucky 63 Calculator
A Lucky 63 places 63 bets on 6 selections: 6 singles, 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and the six-fold. Enter your odds, mark each selection won or lost, and the page settles every line — including the two terms that make it a Lucky bet rather than a Heinz, the single-winner consolation and the all-winners bonus. Both are switchable, because both are bookmaker terms rather than rules of the bet.
The stake covers each of the 63 bets, so a £1.00 Lucky 63 costs £63.00 in total.
Added to the whole return when all six selections win. Ten per cent is the common figure but it is not a rule: set it to the number in your own bookmaker terms, or to zero if they do not offer one.
Bet-by-Bet Breakdown
| Bet Type | Bets | Won | Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singles | 6 | 6 | £27.00 |
| 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 six singles are 9.5% of your outlay and the twenty trebles are 31.7% of it. The line everyone pictures when they place the bet — the six-fold — is one line in sixty-three.
What Each Outcome Would Pay
The same six prices, settled at every number of winners, with the consolation and bonus settings above applied.
| Outcome | Selections | Return | Profit / Loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 winner — shortest price | #1 | £3.00 | −£60.00 |
| 1 winner — longest price | #6 | £13.00 | −£50.00 |
| 2 winners — shortest pair | #1, #2 | £11.00 | −£52.00 |
| 3 winners — shortest three | #1, #2, #3 | £59.00 | −£4.00 |
| 4 winners — shortest four | #1, #2, #3, #4 | £359.00 | £296.00 |
| 5 winners — shortest five | #1, #2, #3, #4, #5 | £2519.00 | £2456.00 |
| All 6 winners | #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6 | £22174.90 | £22111.90 |
Your Results
One-Winner Break-Even
32.00
With the consolation, one winner pays double the fractional odds, so the single has to reach 2d − 1 = 63 to return the outlay. That is 32.00, or 31/1. Without the consolation the same test needs 63.00. The consolation halves the price you need and still leaves you needing a 31/1 shot.
Same Outlay as a Heinz
£63.00 spread over 57 lines instead of 63 (£1.11 per bet, no singles) returns £22251.16 on these results.
The Heinz is £76.26 better on this outcome, because the same money buys more on each of the 57 multiples.
Win-only calculation. An each-way Lucky 63 doubles the bet count to 126 and applies place terms to the second half — see the Each-Way Calculator.
How a Lucky 63 Is Calculated
Each of the 63 bets is settled on its own: six singles, then 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. The six singles are what separate this from a Heinz, and they are the reason one winner returns something rather than nothing.
Take a £1 Lucky 63 (total outlay £63.00) on six selections at decimal odds of 2.00, 3.00, 4.00, 5.00, 6.00 and 7.00, with all six winning, before any all-winners bonus:
| Bet Type | Maths (£1 per bet) | Return |
|---|---|---|
| 6 Singles | 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 | £27.00 |
| 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 | 27 + 295 + 1,665 + 5,104 + 8,028 + 5,040 | £20,159.00 |
| Profit on £63.00 | 20,159 − 63 | £20,096.00 |
The six singles contribute £27 of a £20,159 return on the day everything wins — one part in seven hundred and forty-seven. That is the honest shape of the bet: the singles are not there to pay you when things go well, they are there to give you something back when they do not.
The Break-Even Column, and What the Consolation Actually Buys
At equal prices the price each winner needs to return the outlay is 2^(6/k) − 1, where k is the number of winners. That gives 63.00 on one winner, 7.00 on two, exactly 3.00 on three, 1.83 on four and 1.30 on five. The numbers depend only on the ratio of selections to winners and not on how much you staked, which is why they belong on the page rather than in the calculator above.
| Outcome | Win-only | With consolation | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 winner | 63.00 | 32.00 | the consolation halves the price you need, and 31/1 is still a long way from a banker |
| 2 winners | 7.00 | 7.00 | the consolation does not apply beyond one winner |
| 3 winners | 3.00 | 3.00 | exactly 2/1, the cleanest number in the family |
| 4 winners | 1.83 | 1.83 | 2^1.5 − 1, a shade under 5/6 |
| 5 winners | 1.30 | 1.30 | around 3/10 |
| 6 winners | any price | any price | every one of the 63 lines has come in |
The consolation is the most advertised feature of the Lucky family and it changes exactly one row of that table. Doubling the fractional odds turns decimal d into 2d − 1, so the one-winner test falls from 63.00 to 32.00 — and 31/1 is still a price at which almost nobody is backing six selections. Read it as damage limitation rather than as a route to profit, which is what it is: with one winner at 5.00 the consolation returns £9.00 of your £63.00 instead of £5.00.
Where the Six Singles Stop Being Worth Buying
Set the same total outlay against a Heinz — the identical six selections without the singles, 57 lines instead of 63 — and the comparison stops being a matter of taste. At £63.00 a side with all six priced at 3.00:
| Winners | Lucky 63 | Heinz | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | −£63.00 | −£63.00 | level: nothing pays on either slip |
| 1 | −£60.00 | −£63.00 | Lucky 63 ahead by £3.00 |
| 2 | −£48.00 | −£53.05 | Lucky 63 ahead by £5.05 |
| 3 | £0.00 | −£3.32 | Lucky 63 ahead by £3.32 |
| 4 | +£192.00 | +£205.58 | Heinz ahead by £13.58 |
| 5 | +£960.00 | +£1,051.11 | Heinz ahead by £91.11 |
| 6 | +£4,032.00 | +£4,443.16 | Heinz ahead by £411.16 |
That table is true at 3.00 and nowhere else, which is why it is an example and not the conclusion. The conclusion is the price at which each row changes hands, found by solving the two structures for equality rather than by trying prices until one looks right:
| 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 |
| 6 winners | no crossover | the Heinz is ahead at every price, win-only |
Below the crossover price the Lucky 63 pays more; above it the Heinz does. Read down the column and the answer has a shape: the singles earn their place on short prices and thin days, and cost you on long prices and good ones. Two winners is the extreme case — if you are genuinely backing a pair of 18/1 shots to carry a six-selection slip then you should be buying doubles, not singles.
The All-Winners Bonus Moves the Last Row, and Almost Nobody Prices It
Win-only, the bottom row of that table has no crossover: with six winners every one of the 63 lines has come in, the singles have simply diluted the multiples, and the Heinz is ahead at every price. A ten per cent all-winners bonus changes that, and it changes it at a specific number. At six winners the bonus the Lucky 63 needs merely to draw level with a Heinz on £63.00 at 3.00 is 10.04% — so the standard ten per cent lands just under the line, and the crossover appears at a price of 2.93, a shade under 2/1.
Below 2.93 a bonused Lucky 63 beats the Heinz even on the perfect day; above it the Heinz is still ahead. Six selections all priced under 2/1 is an unusual slip, so the practical reading is that the bonus makes the two bets close rather than making the Lucky 63 the better one. It is worth checking your own terms, though, because the bonus rate is a bookmaker promotion and not a rule of the bet: at fifteen per cent the crossover moves in the punter's favour, and at zero the row reverts to no crossover at all. How the same trade-off works further down the family is set out in our comparison of full-cover bets.
The Lucky Family Side by Side
The three Lucky bets are the same idea at four, five and six selections. The number of lines doubles each time you add one, and so does the price a single winner needs.
| Bet | Selections | Lines | 1 winner | 1 winner, consolation | 2 winners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lucky 15 | 4 | 15 | 15.00 | 8.00 | 3.00 |
| Lucky 31 | 5 | 31 | 31.00 | 16.00 | 4.66 |
| Lucky 63 | 6 | 63 | 63.00 | 32.00 | 7.00 |
The consolation column is the cleanest pattern in the family: 8.00, 16.00, 32.00, doubling with each extra selection, because the number of lines doubles plus one and the consolation halves the price needed. Put another way, a consolation on n selections breaks even at 2 to the power of n minus 1, whatever the bet is called. The five-selection version is priced by our Lucky 31 Calculator, and the same six selections without singles by the Heinz Calculator. If you want the single six-fold priced on its own for comparison, the accumulator calculator does that.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a Lucky 63 bet?
A Lucky 63 covers 6 selections with 63 separate bets: 6 singles, 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 four-folds, 6 five-folds and 1 six-fold. The stake applies to each line, so a £1 Lucky 63 costs £63.00 in total. It is a Heinz with the six singles added.
How many winners does a Lucky 63 need to pay out?
One is enough to get something back, because the singles are on the slip, but returning the whole £63.00 outlay from one winner needs a price of 63.00 win-only, or 32.00 if your bookmaker pays the double-odds consolation. Two winners need 7.00 each and three need exactly 3.00 each.
What is the single-winner consolation worth?
It pays the one winning single at double the fractional odds, so a decimal price of d returns 2d − 1 instead of d. On a £1 Lucky 63 with one winner at 5.00 that is £9.00 back rather than £5.00. It halves the price you need to break even on one winner, from 63.00 to 32.00, which is damage limitation rather than a route to profit.
Is a Lucky 63 better than a Heinz?
At the same total outlay it depends on the price, not on preference. The Lucky 63 pays more below the crossover price and the Heinz above it: 19.00 with two winners, 4.05 with three, 2.06 with four and 1.35 with five. With six winners the Heinz is ahead at every price win-only, though a ten per cent all-winners bonus creates a crossover at 2.93.
What happens to a Lucky 63 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 and effectively becomes a Lucky 31 plus a dead single. Your outlay does not change — you still paid for 63 lines. Check the terms on your own account for what a void leg does to the consolation and the bonus, because bookmakers differ on whether a bet with a void leg still counts as all winners.
A Lucky 63 stakes sixty-three times your unit before a single race is run, and the consolation and bonus that make it sound safer than a Heinz are bookmaker terms that can be withdrawn — 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.