Heinz Calculator

Work out the returns on a Heinz: fifty-seven bets across six football selections, with no singles.

A Heinz calculator works out returns from fifty-seven bets across six football selections at decimal odds, combining doubles, trebles, and accumulators up to the six-fold.

What Is a Heinz?

A Heinz is a full cover bet on six selections with no singles. Instead of placing six individual bets, you place fifty-seven separate wagers that combine all possible permutations of your six picks.

The structure is precise: fifteen doubles, twenty trebles, fifteen four-folds, six five-folds, and one six-fold. Every combination across your selections is covered exactly once.

The name comes from the Heinz ketchup brand’s famous ‘Fifty-Seven Varieties’ slogan. Because the bet contains exactly fifty-seven lines, the nickname stuck and became industry standard across British and European betting culture.

The defining feature of a Heinz is the absence of single-selection bets. Unlike an accumulator that might pay something if only one leg wins, a Heinz requires at least two selections to land for any line to return profit. This suits punters genuinely confident about multiple picks and wanting full exposure to every combination without placing bets on each selection individually.

The mathematical scale makes unit stake critically important. A unit stake of EUR 0.20 creates a total outlay of EUR 11.40, because that stake multiplies across all fifty-seven lines. This makes the Heinz popular among bettors seeking maximum coverage without massive exposure, but it creates a common trap for those who miscalculate their true total stake.

How a Heinz Is Calculated

A Heinz follows a fixed mathematical formula based on combinatorics. The number of lines never changes: it is always fifty-seven for six selections, because that is the total of all possible combinations without singles.

The formula breaks down this way. From six selections, fifteen different doubles can be made (every possible pair). From six selections, twenty different trebles can be made (every possible triple). From six selections, fifteen different four-folds can be made. From six selections, six different five-folds can be made. From six selections, one six-fold can be made. The sum is always fifteen plus twenty plus fifteen plus six plus one equals fifty-seven bets.

Your total outlay is straightforward multiplication. Take your unit stake, multiply it by fifty-seven. That is your total cost before any returns come in.

When all six selections win, the calculator works out the return by taking every possible combination, multiplying the decimal odds for the selections in that combination, multiplying the result by your unit stake, and summing every line’s return across all fifty-seven combinations.

If fewer selections win, only the lines built entirely from winning selections produce a return. For example, if five of your six selections win, then all lines made from only those five winning selections still pay. That means all fifteen possible doubles from five selections, all ten possible trebles, all five possible four-folds, and the one five-fold—twenty-six lines in total. Lines that relied on the losing sixth selection contribute nothing.

The calculation respects the basic truth about accumulators: every selection in every line must win. There is no partial credit. The calculator uses decimal odds throughout, multiplying them together for each line, applying your unit stake to each, and summing the result.

What the Calculator Shows You

The calculator displays each of these fields once you enter six decimal odds and your chosen unit stake.

Number of bets: always fifty-seven for a Heinz. This never varies.

Total outlay: your unit stake multiplied by fifty-seven. This is the amount you will lose if all six selections lose.

Return if all win: the sum of all fifty-seven line returns, calculated by multiplying the odds in each combination, applying your unit stake to each, and adding them together.

Profit if all win: the return if all win, minus your total outlay. This is your net gain.

The calculator displays the breakdown of how many lines of each type (doubles, trebles, four-folds, five-folds, six-fold) make up the fifty-seven total. It also shows what happens if individual selections lose, revealing which and how many lines still pay from the remaining combinations.

Worked Example

Consider a Heinz on six selections at a EUR 0.20 unit stake: Copenhagen to beat Lyngby at 1.50, Molde to beat Sandefjord at 1.60, Rosenborg to beat Stromsgodset at 1.80, AIK to beat Varnamo at 2.00, Legia Warsaw to beat Radomiak at 2.20, and FCSB to beat UTA Arad at 2.50.

Your total outlay is fifty-seven bets at EUR 0.20 each, which equals EUR 11.40. The calculator works through every possible combination of these six selections: fifteen different doubles, twenty different trebles, fifteen four-folds, six five-folds, and the single six-fold. Each line is computed by multiplying the odds in that combination, then multiplying by your EUR 0.20 unit stake.

When the calculator sums all fifty-seven line returns, the total comes to EUR 119.78. Your outlay was EUR 11.40, so your profit if all six win is EUR 108.38. This shows why unit stake matters critically: the same six selections at a EUR 1.00 unit stake would produce an outlay of EUR 57.00 and vastly larger profits, because every line is multiplied by that higher stake.

What the 57 Bets in a Heinz Actually Are

The fifty-seven lines break down into five distinct categories of accumulator. Every possible combination of a given size is represented once. The table below shows the exact structure.

This structure means a Heinz is mathematically complete: no combination is repeated, and none is missed. Two units combine in fifteen ways, three in twenty ways, four in fifteen ways, five in six ways, and all six in one way. The formula is fixed and identical for every Heinz, regardless of the odds or the stake.

Total Outlay for a Heinz at Different Unit Stakes

The total cost of a Heinz is simply your unit stake multiplied by fifty-seven. The table below shows the outlay at commonly used stakes.

A unit stake of EUR 0.10 creates a EUR 5.70 total bet. EUR 0.20 creates EUR 11.40. EUR 0.50 creates EUR 28.50. EUR 1.00 creates EUR 57.00. Many European bettors use stakes below EUR 1.00 to control the mathematical scale of the Heinz, since the fifty-seven multiplier amplifies even modest unit stakes into substantial outlays.

Losing One Selection: What Still Pays

The resilience of a Heinz becomes visible when one selection loses. If FCSB lose to UTA Arad, your six-fold and every line that included FCSB cease to pay. But every line constructed from the other five selections—Copenhagen, Molde, Rosenborg, AIK and Legia Warsaw—still returns money.

From five selections, the possible combinations are: ten doubles, ten trebles, five four-folds, and one five-fold. That is twenty-six lines still live from your original fifty-seven.

Using the worked example above, if FCSB lose but all five other selections win at their stated odds—1.50, 1.60, 1.80, 2.00, and 2.20—the calculator shows a return of EUR 32.92. Your outlay was EUR 11.40, so you bank a profit of EUR 21.52 despite losing one of your six picks.

This illustrates the core advantage of a Heinz over six separate single bets. A single bet on FCSB produces a loss. A single bet on any other selection produces a win only for that bet. But in a Heinz, the losing selection eliminates only the lines it appeared in. The mathematical structure absorbs that loss across multiple winning lines. You profit overall even though one selection failed.

However, if two or more selections lose, the number of surviving lines shrinks sharply. Lose two, and only ten lines remain (five doubles, four trebles, and one four-fold from the four winners). Lose three or more, and you cannot profit at all.

When a Heinz Makes Sense

A Heinz suits a punter with six strong opinions and genuine confidence in all of them. If you are picking between many matches and can identify six selections where you truly fancy all six, the full cover gives maximum exposure without forcing you to place six separate bets.

The bet is rational for bettors managing a modest bankroll. A EUR 0.20 unit stake on a Heinz costs EUR 11.40 total. You get coverage across fifty-seven lines and the resilience of still profiting even if one selection loses, while your outlay remains constrained.

The Heinz makes less sense when your confidence is uneven. If you are certain about three selections but uncertain about the other three, a Heinz forces you to back combinations you do not genuinely fancy. Building a smaller system from only your three strongest picks, or using a Yankee or a Canadian on the five you like best, allocates your risk more efficiently.

The Heinz is most effective when you have identified multiple matches in the same midweek round or weekend where form is clear and public information is abundant. You get coverage without the massive outlay of a Goliath, and you retain real resilience if one leg fails. But only place a Heinz if you genuinely believe in all six selections equally. Mixing strong fancies with uncertain picks is how Heinz bets lose money.

Common Mistakes

Many bettors mishandle the unit stake, entering it as though it were the total outlay when in fact it is multiplied by fifty-seven. Bettors sometimes expect a Heinz to return profit from a single winning selection, which cannot happen because there are no singles in the structure. Others assume that six selections means six times the risk of a single bet, when the mathematics is vastly more complex and the actual risk profile depends on odds and outcomes across all fifty-seven lines. A frequent error is choosing a Heinz when you only genuinely fancy three or four of the six, forcing you to back combinations with lower conviction and accepting worse value.

Heinz Among the Larger No-Singles Bets

A Heinz occupies the middle ground among system bets that contain no singles. A Canadian covers five selections across twenty-six lines. A Super Heinz expands to seven selections and one hundred twenty lines. A Goliath pushes to eight selections and two hundred forty-seven lines. The Heinz at six selections and fifty-seven lines sits between them, offering more coverage than a Canadian but less extreme than a Goliath.