Free Heinz calculator
6 selections, 57 bets — 15 doubles + 20 trebles + 15 fourfolds + 6 fivefolds + 1 sixfold. Named after Heinz's "57 Varieties" marketing slogan.
| Type | Bets | Stake | Win | Place | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 0 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 | £0.00 |
What a Heinz actually is
A Heinz is the 6-selection full-cover bet that gave the whole family its naming convention. You pick six selections and the bookmaker writes 57 bets — deliberately matching the H. J. Heinz Company's "57 Varieties" slogan. The bets break down as 15 doubles, 20 trebles, 15 fourfolds, 6 fivefolds, and 1 sixfold accumulator. No singles.
At £1 a unit, that's £57 outlay — a substantial unit price that punters need to be deliberate about. You're paying for exposure to every combination of 2-6 of your selections, and you need a minimum of two winners for the slip to pay anything at all. Heinz is the bet of choice when you want serious compounding upside across six legs without the cost of buying singles.
Worked example — six winners at 3/1
Six selections at 3/1 (4.00 decimal), £0.50 unit stake — total outlay £28.50. Settling each fold:
- 15 doubles × (£0.50 × 16) = £120
- 20 trebles × (£0.50 × 64) = £640
- 15 fourfolds × (£0.50 × 256) = £1,920
- 6 fivefolds × (£0.50 × 1,024) = £3,072
- 1 sixfold × (£0.50 × 4,096) = £2,048
Total return = £7,800 on £28.50 outlay — a profit of £7,771.50, or about 274× your stake. The fourfolds, fivefolds and sixfold dominate the return completely; the doubles barely register. This is the structural lesson of full-cover bets: at deep compounding, the small handful of high-fold bets carries almost all the value.
And with only 2 of 6 winning at 3/1? You collect on one double — £8 return on £28.50, a £20.50 loss. The Heinz needs deep follow-through. At 5/6 winners the return explodes; at 1-2/6 it crashes.
Heinz vs Lucky 63 vs Super Heinz
Where the Heinz sits in the family:
| Bet type | Selections | Bets | Singles? | Bonuses? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heinz | 6 | 57 | No | No |
| Lucky 63 | 6 | 63 | Yes (6) | Standard |
| Super Heinz | 7 | 120 | No | No |
Heinz is the lean 6-selection bet; Lucky 63 adds singles and bookmaker bonus terms; Super Heinz scales the same structure to 7 selections. The marginal cost of moving from Heinz to Lucky 63 is small (6 extra unit stakes); the marginal cost of moving to Super Heinz is huge (63 extra bets).
Where the margin gets out of hand
Fifty-seven bets is where compounded margin really starts to bite. The sixfold accumulator on six legs each carrying 4% margin gives the bookmaker about a 23% expected take — on that single bet. Across the whole slip, the bookie's effective edge on a Heinz with typical UK racing prices often exceeds the 20% mark. How compounded margin quietly drains the EV from big system bets is the cornerstone reference that works out exactly how that maths plays at scale.
Related tools and guides
- Betting Calculator — full multi-mode calculator: accumulator, system bets, lay, free bet, arbitrage.
- Lucky 63 Calculator — same 6 selections plus 6 singles and standard bookmaker bonuses.
- Super Heinz Calculator — the 7-selection step up (120 bets).
- Canadian Calculator — the 5-selection version of the same structure (26 bets).
- Odds Converter — Decimal ↔ Fractional ↔ American with implied probability.