6 Score Challenge Prediction Tips & Strategy

No doubt, if you're an avid football fan you've come across correct score challenge competitions.

Usually you predict 6 scores in 6 matches on the weekend, and if you win you get a free prize.

Sky started this kind of competition with its "Super 6" way back in the 2007/2008 season. The Sun Newspaper also has a six score competition with a £10,000 prize draw. More recently, bet365 has created its "6 Score Challenge" score prediction competition. 

The idea is, if you predict 6 correct scores, you get a cash prize. It's free to play, so it serves as a popular customer offer for betting sites. For the customer, the only stipulation is that you have registered at the betting site and qualify for the offer. For free-to-play offers you do not need to deposit and place a bet with real money.

Bet365 6 Score Challenge

In my opinion, bet365 have somewhat improved things with the "6 Score Challenge" offer as they also have extra smaller prizes on offer. The headline prize is to "win up to £250,000" by predicting 6 correct scores. bet365 also have a secondary "Tournament challenge" offer, which again is a prize of up to £250,000 but involves predicting Champions League scores.

The reason I think the 6 scores challenge is the best correct score competition offer is that customers are offered prizes even for getting just 1 out of 6 scores correct.

For the weekend of Oct 18th/19th, the prizes on offer are as follows:

6 Correct (Cash) £250,000*
5 Correct (Cash) £20,000*
4 Correct (Cash) £10,000*
3 Correct - 25 Free Spins
2 Correct - 10 Free Spins
1 Correct - 5 Free Spins

As you can see, there are prizes on offer for even just one correct score out of six attempts. This, in my view is a more realistic competition as it is very difficult to predict scores correctly.

The correct score market usually has odds of around 10/1. It can be higher or lower depending on the match in question and the actual score that occurs. The odds of hitting 6 10/1 bets are 1,771,561/1! 5/6 10/1 bets correct is 28,629/1. 4/6 correct is 1056/1. 3/6 correct is 145/1. 2/6 correct is 28/1. 1/6 correct is 5/1.

As you can see, we have to get pretty far down the table to have a realistic chance of hitting a prize. It is a lottery in that sense. The good news is it's free to play and you can keep trying weekly.

What Strategy do I Use to Accurately Predict 6 Scores?

As we have previously discussed, to hit 6 scores is going to be around 1,771,561/1 (varies depending on the odds of each correct score). Even the most accomplished football bettor is going to struggle to accurately pick 6 scores at those kinds of odds!

While looking at past football statistics and team performance will give you an idea of what you might think the correct score will be, this is a notoriously difficult football market to predict.

The obvious things to look at if you do want to delve into statistics would be to work out which are the high scoring teams and which teams tend to score fewer goals. Also, look at xG statistics, which may give a more accurate figure than the bare actual result of previous games. Also, check if any top players are out of action. If a key striker or defender is missing, this could influence the game. Did any of the teams also recently play in the Champions League? Did some players have international duties recently? Is the game a local derby match? Have you also looked at the head-to-head results? As you can see, there are many variables to explore that will affect how many goals occur in a game and what the final score is.

Don't Discount the Smaller Prizes

To hit 1/6 scores correctly, the odds are 5/1 which is a 16.7% chance. It is best to focus on trying to win the lower prizes rather than expect to hit a bet at over a million-to-1 odds. "You have to be in it to win it", as they say, and a competition like this means entering more times gives you more chances.  If you play for every week of the year, then the 1/6 scores correct prize is the most achievable prize to win. The odds suggest you have a 16.7% chance of hitting at least 10/1 out of 6 bets. For a free-to-play competition, these odds are fair to potentially walk away a winner.

Check out the "Tournament Challenge"

It is also worth checking out "Tournament Challenge". This is a slightly different set-up to the 6 score challenge, and instead you pick out match outcomes (1X2 market) for Champions League games and earn prizes for leaderboard success. An example of the match day leaderboard prizes (prize for winning a round) is below...

1st - £20,000
2nd - £5,000
3rd  - £1,000
4th -  £250
5th -  £100 Bet Credits
6th-20th - £25 Bet Credits
21st-50th -  £5 Bet Credits
51st-100th -  £1 Bet Credits

It's difficult with the tournament challenge to work out the chances of winning a prize. This is because you are in a league with 1000s of other people, competing against them. What is good to see (as with the 6 score challenge) is that they offer smaller prizes for lower places in the leaderboard. This goes right down to winning a £1 bet credit if you come 100th in one of the rounds. This keeps the competition engaging, and in my opinion means it's also worth having a go at this free-to-play prediction Champions League tournament challenge.

Conclusion and Where to Bet

In conclusion, both the Bet365 6 Score and Tournament Challenge free-to-play competitions are well worth your time playing.

To get the top prize, the odds are extremely slim, but why not try your luck as there are also smaller prizes on offer. The smaller prizes give you a more realistic chance of walking away a winner if you play often enough.

To play Bet365 6 score or Tournament Challenge you just need to register at Bet365 below...