Special Bets: betting on public events outside sport
The Special Bets section of the pre-match line is where you bet on things no scoreboard can settle. Each question is about a public fact: snow at an airport on Christmas Day, a band confirming a comeback, the word of the year picked by an American dictionary, a video game launch slipping again, or alien scenarios with a deadline year written into the title. The question is closed, and the bet is settled once the answer becomes an established fact.
How the groups are organised
Special Bets events are filed into groups. A few cover a broad theme: the general Special bets group, Space. Specials, Music. Specials bets and Weather. Special bets. Others are built around a single celebrity, a fantasy book series or a dated edition of a city ranking.
Group | What is asked | How outcomes are written |
|---|---|---|
Space. Specials | alien contact, a celebrity revealed as an alien, official confirmation that aliens exist; the deadline sits in the title | names followed by "Yes" |
Weather. Special bets | snow on Christmas Day | one outcome per city, with the airport named in brackets |
Music. Specials bets | a reunion tour or new music being announced | "Yes" and "No" for one artist, or a list of artists |
Special bets | a delayed video game launch, a dictionary's word of the year | "Yes" and "No", or a list under Who Will Win |
The alien questions live in the Space specials group, while the Christmas question sits among the section's weather bets.
Reading an event page
Open any event and you get its date and time, the full wording of the question and the group it belongs to. A Search by market field sits above the outcomes, which are grouped under an Event block or a Who Will Win block. Two layouts come up:
a statement with "Yes" and "No": Yes wins if the stated thing happens, No wins if it does not;
a run of names, each with "Yes": every line is one possible answer, and your bet wins if the name you picked matches the result.
Lists of the second kind carry no "No" lines at all, so the only way in is to back the answer you expect.
Rule 10.101: snow on 25 December
Section 10.101 of the betting rules, the part reserved for Special Bets, holds a single provision, and it covers the weather. It refers to snow recorded on 25 December by the weather station at the city's main international airport.
Every other group falls under the general terms: the result that counts is the one the bookmaker declares, and the time printed on an event page is only a guide.
Finding the section
Special Bets is listed in the pre-match index of all sports, at the same level as football or tennis. You need to create a 1xBet account before any stake can go through.