Rules of the game
How to score the most points during the FIFA World Cup 2026
The game runs in two phases: pre-tournament predictions (groups, winner, finalists, top scorer) and one prediction per match during the tournament. The deeper the round, the more your points are multiplied.
👤 Signup and profile
Free account creation via email and a unique pseudo. Customisable avatar (emoji or account picture). Prediction history, personal stats and trophy case available from your profile.
🏆 Leagues
Any player can create a league: they become its Leader, choose the optional rules, tune the scale, and invite via link. The Leader can: enable or disable optional rules before each phase starts, edit the default scale, exclude a player, transfer the role, or leave the league (the role then auto-transfers to the longest-standing member). Once a phase starts (groups, R16, etc.) its rules are frozen until the phase ends. You can join as many leagues as you want — predictions are independent per league. A "Copy to my other leagues" button is available to save time. The Super League: official community-wide league with fixed rules, identical for everyone — perfect to compare yourself against every player.
🏟️ Pre-tournament predictions
Before kickoff: rank the 4 teams in each group, pick the tournament winner, the finalists and the top scorer. These lock at the first match.
⚽ Match predictions
For each match: predict the score. Scoring is pyramidal — the 1X2 outcome is the foundation, the score bonuses sit on top: • Correct outcome (1X2): 4 pts — applies to every match. • Correct goal difference: 4 pts — only counts if the outcome was right. • Correct score per team: 2 pts per team (both can stack) — only counts if the outcome was right. • Knockout qualifier bonus: 5 pts — independent of the outcome, knockout phase only, when the team you picked to advance does (after extra time / shootout). If you get the outcome wrong, only the knockout qualifier bonus can credit. Goal-diff and per-team rewards reset to 0. Examples: • Perfect 2-1 vs 2-1 → 4 + 4 + 2 + 2 = 12 pts. • Right winner, wrong score 2-0 vs 3-1 → 4 + 4 = 8 pts. • Right draw, right diff 1-1 vs 2-2 → 4 + 4 = 8 pts. • Wrong winner 2-1 vs 1-2 → 0 pts (group) or +5 KO qualifier bonus if applicable. Predictions close at each match's kickoff. The leader can edit every value under Settings → Scoring scale.
🤖 Auto-prediction (forgotten picks)
If you forget to predict before kickoff, we drop a placeholder pick for you — but with a deliberately reduced scoring rule, to reward players who actually engage. How it works: • 1 hour before the match, we take the favourite per the bookmaker's 1X2 odds (Bet365). That's your bucket: home win, draw, or away win. • No specific score is filled — the score box stays empty, and you only earn the WINNER points (1X2). No per-team goal bonus, no goal-diff bonus. • Optional bonuses (first scorer, first assister, first-goal quarter) are NOT triggered either. • You can still edit your prediction until kickoff to take control back — the "⚡ Auto-filled" badge drops as soon as you save. ⚽ If you make your predictions before kickoff: you can earn up to 36+ pts per match (exact score + winner + potential bonus team). 🤖 If you forget: we automatically bet on the favorite. You only get the winner points. No exact score, no bonus. Average difference: 30+ pts lost per match! Bottom line: predict every match to max out points. Enable push notifications so you never miss a kickoff.
🎟️ Forgiveness credits (5 per league)
So a passive player can't ride auto-prediction the whole tournament, each member gets 5 forgiveness credits per league. How it works: • You start every league you join at 5/5. • Each time the auto-prediction safety net saves a forgotten match for you, 1 credit is consumed. • Once you hit 0/5 the safety net stops: the matches you forget score 0 pts in this league (instead of a few points on the favourite bucket). • Credits are per league — forgetting matches in Super League doesn't eat into your friends-league counter. • The badge on the league card (🎟️ X/5) changes colour: green (5/5), light green (3-4), amber (1-2), red (0). Credits don't reload during the tournament. You can still edit any auto-pick before kickoff: as long as you save a real prediction (even identical to the suggested one), no credit is consumed. Bottom line: treat the 5 credits as an emergency reserve. Enable push notifications, set a reminder, but don't count on them every match.
🎯 Odds mode
Alternative mode (set by the Leader at league creation): the Classique scale is multiplied by the 1X2 odds of the actual outcome. The more improbable the result per the bookmaker, the more your points are multiplied. Same pyramidal scale as Classique — the only difference is the odds multiplier: • Correct winner: 4 × odds — credits on every match. • Correct spread: 4 × odds — only if the correct winner was found. • Correct team score: 2 × odds per team (stackable) — only if the correct winner was found. • Correct qualifier bonus: 5 × odds — knockout only, independent of the 1/N/2. Optional bonuses (first scorer 5 pts, first assister 3 pts, first goal quarter 3 pts) stay flat — no multiplication. Group example: Mexico beats South Africa 1-0, home_win odds = 1.85. Perfect 1-0 prediction → Correct winner 4 × 1.85 = 7 pts, Correct Mexico score 2 × 1.85 = 4 pts, Correct South Africa score 2 × 1.85 = 4 pts, Correct spread 4 × 1.85 = 7 pts. Total: 22 pts (no optional bonuses). KO example: France-Morocco 1-1 (France wins on pens), draw odds = 3.50. Prediction 1-1 + France qualifies → Correct winner 4 × 3.50 = 14 pts, Correct team scores (×2) 2 × 3.50 × 2 = 14 pts, Correct spread 4 × 3.50 = 14 pts, Correct qualifier 5 × 3.50 = 18 pts. Subtotal: 60 pts. Odds are frozen 24h before each match: you see an estimated cote before, the official one after. The ×2 Boost is still usable as in Classique. Per-mechanic cap: 100 pts (safety net against extreme odds).
🔥 Per-round multipliers
A match's points are multiplied by the round: ×2 round of 32, ×4 round of 16, ×6 quarter, ×8 semi, ×10 final. Each multiplier freezes at the start of its round.
⚡ Boost ×2
Each player has a quota of ×2 boosts to spend on the predictions they're most confident about. A boosted prediction doubles every point it scored — so a 12-pt classique pick becomes 24 pts, a 50-pt cotes pick becomes 100 pts, etc. The quota is per matchday, not per phase. Group-stage matchdays each have their own budget that resets when the previous matchday ends, so a quiet J1 doesn't carry boosts into J2. • Group J1: 2 boosts • Group J2: 2 boosts (resets after J1) • Group J3: 2 boosts (resets after J2) • Round of 32: 2 boosts • Round of 16: 1 boost • Quarter-finals: 1 boost • Semi-finals, third place, final: 0 boosts Total: 10 boosts across the tournament. The leader can switch the boost off in Settings if they want a stricter format. In Odds mode the boost ×2 stacks on top of the multiplied cote — same mechanic.
🏅 Bonus team & top scorer
Pick a team that earns you bonus points every time they score or qualify. The bigger the underdog, the higher your multiplier (×1 to ×5). Every player gets one bonus team per league. In Random mode it's drawn (up to 2 rerolls); in Free mode you pick it yourself. In both modes the points scale with the team's final-winner odds, frozen before kickoff. Multiplier = clamp(round(odds / 25), 1, 5): • Odds < 12 (heavy favourite: Brazil, Argentina, France…) → ×1 • Odds ≈ 12–37 (challenger: Germany, Portugal, Spain…) → ×2 • Odds ≈ 38–62 (credible outsider: Croatia, Belgium, Netherlands…) → ×3 • Odds ≈ 63–87 (outsider: Senegal, Morocco, Switzerland…) → ×4 • Odds ≥ 88 (deep underdog: Canada, Iran, USA…) → ×5 If your bonus team is eliminated, its bonus stops.
🏆 Bracket league
In a Bracket league, you score points by guessing which team qualifies in each knockout match (round of 32 → final). The further into the tournament you aim, the more a correct qualifier is worth: the round of 32 and round of 16 count for less than a quarter-final, semi-final or final. In odds mode, those points are multiplied by the odds of the team you backed — qualifying an underdog pays far more than a favourite. You also score by predicting the tournament winner and the losing finalist. The right winner is worth the champion's odds capped at 50 points (the more unexpected the title, the more it pays), and the right finalist 4 points. The exact score earns no points on its own, but it breaks ties between level players: what matters for scoring is "who goes through?". No bonus team, no group-stage picks — just the knockout phase.
💀 Win or Go Home league
A Win or Go Home league is a survival game. You start with 10 lives. In each knockout match, if you get the qualifying team wrong, you lose a life. A forgotten prediction also counts as a mistake (−1 life). The goal: survive as far into the tournament as possible. At 0 lives you're out — for good. The ranking rewards those who go the furthest first, then those who kept the most lives. No points, no bonus team, no groups: just survive.
📊 Standings & tie-break
The standings update in real time during matches, visible at any time in every league: total points and delta since the last match. Per-prediction breakdown is available from your profile. On a tie at the end of the tournament, tie-breakers apply in this order: (1) number of exact scores hit across the tournament, (2) average points per match played, (3) accuracy on the "Tournament winner" pick, (4) random draw.
🎯 In Odds mode, each line above is multiplied by the 1X2 odds of the actual result. Classique = flat values.
4+ goals: a prediction of 4 or more goals counts the same. A "4+" pick is exact if that team scores 4, 5, 6 or more.
Third-place playoff: ×6 multiplier by default (leader-editable). The leader can disable the third-place prediction in Settings; its multiplier is then ignored. It is scored with the same three mechanics as any other match.
The Leader can enable these extra per-match bonuses: • First scorer — 2 pts default • First assister — 1 pt default • First-goal 15-min window — 1 pt default • Per-player bonus team — coefficient tied to the winner odds (random or free pick, configurable per league)
Each league's leader can customize these values in the settings.
FAQCan I edit my predictions after I save them?
Yes, up to 5 minutes before the match's kickoff.
What happens if I join a league after the tournament starts?
You can predict the upcoming matches, but you don't get the points of the matches already played. Pre-tournament predictions are no longer accessible once the tournament has started.
My bonus team was eliminated, can I change it?
No. An eliminated team means the bonus points stop until the end of the tournament.
Odds can move heavily before a match. What about after the T-24h freeze?
Once frozen at T-24h, the odds don't move. Any fluctuation after the freeze has zero impact on your score. Before T-24h, you see an estimated cote that may still move.
What if I predict after T-24h?
You predict with the already-frozen official odds. Same for everyone, no surprises.
Does an own goal count for the "first scorer" bet?
Never. Only a player's voluntary goal counts.
Can the Leader edit the rules mid-tournament?
Only for phases that haven't started yet. The rules of a phase already in progress are frozen until the phase ends.
Can the Leader exclude me?
Yes. Typically used for inactive accounts or problematic behaviour.