The Free Lucky 15 Calculator
Enter your odds and stake to see the exact returns, profit and bonus for a Lucky 15 bet.
This Lucky 15 calculator settles all 15 bets on four selections and adds the bonus if you earn one. Mark each pick Won, Placed, Lost or NR, type the odds, and the return updates as you type. Switch on each way, Rule 4 or a dead heat under any selection.
A Lucky 15 is 15 bets on four selections: four singles, six doubles, four trebles and one four-fold. It costs 15 times your unit stake, or 30 times each way. One winner still pays, because of the singles.
Most bookmakers add a bonus, commonly 10% (some pay more), on top of your returns if all 4 selections win, and if only one selection wins they usually double the odds on that one winning single so you still get something back.
Try the calculator belowHow much does a Lucky 15 cost?
Fifteen times your unit stake. A £1 Lucky 15 costs £15. A 50p Lucky 15 costs £7.50. Each way doubles it, so a 50p each way Lucky 15 costs £15, because every one of the 15 bets has a win part and a place part.
| Bet | Bets |
|---|---|
| Singles | 4 |
| Doubles | 6 |
| Trebles | 4 |
| Four-fold | 1 |
| Total | 15 |
Lucky 15 each way explained
An each way Lucky 15 is 30 bets: 15 to win and 15 to place. The place part pays at a fraction of the win odds, usually 1/4 or 1/5, set by the bookmaker for that race. A horse that places but does not win pays only on the place part of every bet it is in. Choose the place terms per selection in the tool, or set a default in Settings.
What happens with a non-runner in a Lucky 15?
Mark it NR. The bets it is in are settled as if that leg won at odds of 1/1, which means they drop down a level: a double becomes a single, a treble becomes a double. Most bookmakers remove the bonus when any leg is a non-runner, and the tool does the same.
Lucky 15 bonuses and consolations
Two extras make a Lucky 15 different from a Yankee with singles. If all four win, most bookmakers add a bonus to the whole return, often 10%. If only one wins, the single on that horse is paid at double the odds. Both are on by default and both can be changed in Settings, because terms differ between bookmakers.
Lucky 15 or accumulator?
The arithmetic is the difference. An accumulator on the same four horses is one bet: if all four win it pays far more, and if one loses it pays nothing. A Lucky 15 spreads the same money over 15 bets, so it pays something on one, two or three winners and less than the accumulator on four. Which is better depends on the odds and the stake, which is what the accumulator calculator and this page let you compare.
Worked example: Three winners from four
£1.00 on 1. 2/1 won, 2. 3/1 won, 3. 5/2 won, 4. 4/1 lost. Total stake £15.00.
| Bet | Bets | Stake | Return |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singles | 4 | £4.00 | £10.50 |
| Doubles | 6 | £6.00 | £36.50 |
| Trebles | 4 | £4.00 | £42.00 |
| 4-fold | 1 | £1.00 | £0.00 |
| Total | 15 | £15.00 | £89.00 |
Return £89.00 on £15.00 staked, a profit of £74.00. These are the figures the tool above opens with.
Built for a phone, not a desk
Most bet calculators are a desktop form buried in a page of adverts and articles. This one is one screen, made for a phone in the bookies or on the sofa. Tap the bets you want to place and they light up. Mark each pick Won, Lost or NR before you type a price, so losers need no odds at all. The total sits at the bottom of the screen the whole time. Every calculator on this site is the same tool with a different bet loaded, so there is nothing new to learn from page to page.