Columns and Multiples

What a column is

A column is one complete combination of ten outcomes, one per match. It is the atom of the protocol: the thing that is priced, the thing that is scored, and the thing that is paid.

Every column costs the same unit price — an on-chain constant, currently 2 USDC, identical for everybody on every matchweek. What varies between predictions is not the price of a column but how many columns they span.

Singles, doubles and triples

A pick is one match’s worth of a prediction, and it may cover more than one outcome:

• Single — one outcome.
• Double — two outcomes.
• Triple — all three outcomes.

Ten picks describe every column consistent with them. Their number is the product of the outcomes chosen in each match, and the cost follows directly:

columns = 2^doubles × 3^triples
cost    = unit price × columns

Coverage is bought, not granted. Each extra outcome in a match multiplies the width of the prediction and multiplies its cost by exactly the same factor.

The growth is multiplicative, not additive. A double costs double, a triple costs triple, and every extra match you are unsure about compounds the bill. Width is a deliberate purchase, never a hedge that comes for free — and its price is never quoted or negotiated, it falls out of the picks themselves and is charged on submission.

Winning two tiers with one prediction

Because each column is scored on its own and lands in exactly one tier, a prediction that spans several columns can finish the matchweek in several tiers at once.

Consider a prediction with nine singles and one double: home win and draw covered on the tenth match. It spans two columns and costs two units.

In the first two cases the prediction is paid by two tiers at once — the top tier, carry pool included, and the 9/10 tier — and collects both in a single claim. In the third neither branch of the double hit, so both columns land in 9/10 and both are paid. The double bought two chances at the top tier, not a guarantee of one.