Box Betting at its Best

So what are your odds with a 6 way boxed bet? Let’s run the numbers.

We know that the numbers recycle into the pool, so the odds are the same of picking any number in each draw. That means 10%. So .1 * .1 * .1 equals 1/1000. However, since order doesn’t matter, we need to figure out how many unique combinations of numbers there are and divide our result by that.

We know that in a system with 3 numbers there are only 3 * 2 * 1 combinations of numbers, or 6. So we divide out 1000 by 6 and get a 1 in 166 chance of winning, or about 0.6 percent.