Speed Survivor terms
- Speed SurvivorA live NFL contest: twelve yes-or-no questions during one game, scored on accuracy and speed, with cuts and a pot the survivors split.
- ContestOne Speed Survivor entry pool tied to one NFL game, with its own entry fee, prize pool, format and payout tiers shown before lock.
- Live questionA yes-or-no question about what happens next in the game, generated from live conditions and open for a short window.
- RoundOne question's window, about every five minutes of game clock; twelve rounds make a contest.
- LockThe moment a contest closes to new entries, at the scheduled start of the game.
- Speed pointsThe points a correct answer earns: a base amount plus a speed bonus that grows the faster you answered.
- Base pointsThe fixed part of a correct answer's score, the same for everyone who answered correctly.
- Speed bonusThe extra points for a fast correct answer, shrinking as the question's window runs down.
- CutA set point in the game where the bottom of the field is removed and stops scoring.
- LivesIn a multi-life contest, the number of wrong answers you can survive before you are out.
- Single-life contestA format where one wrong answer eliminates you; banked points still count for placement.
- Multi-life contestA format where you start with a set number of lives and lose one per wrong answer.
- EliminationBeing removed from a contest, by a wrong answer in single-life play, by losing your last life, or at a cut.
- The Perfect 36The $3,600,000 grand prize for 36 correct answers in a row across paid-entry contests, free to opt in to, paid as a thirty-year annuity.
- RunA streak of consecutive correct answers in paid-entry contests; the Perfect 36 pays at thirty-six.
- Opt-inThe free, one-time choice to have your paid-entry answers count toward the Perfect 36.
- PodiumThe top three finishers in a contest, shown with points and cash on the recap.
- Cash lineThe lowest finishing position in a contest that still gets paid.
- Payout tiersThe ladder of prize amounts by finishing position, published on the contest page before lock.
- Prize poolThe money paid out in a contest: the entries collected, held by a custodian, plus anything Speed Labs adds.
- Added moneyThe amount a contest paid out above what its entries collected, which Speed Labs may add.
- Entry feeWhat one entry to a paid contest costs, from $20; some contests are free.
- Free contestA contest with a $0 entry fee, offered weekly; no purchase is necessary to enter or win.
- CustodianThe third party that holds contest prize pools, separate from Speed Labs.
- No houseSpeed Labs sets the question, never a price, and takes no position; entrants compete against each other, not the company.
- SettlementThe final scoring and payout of a contest once its questions resolve, the same night as the game.
- LeaderboardThe live ranking of entrants by points during a contest, with following badges for players you follow.
Survivor pool terms
- Survivor poolA pool where each entrant picks one team to win each week and is out after a single wrong pick; the last entrant standing takes the pot.
- NFL survivor poolThe most common survivor format: one NFL team per week, no team twice, eliminated on a loss.
- Elimination poolAny contest where a wrong pick removes you and the field shrinks until someone wins; also called a knockout pool.
- Last man standingThe end state of an elimination contest, and a common name for survivor pools.
- One-game survivorA survivor contest that starts and finishes inside a single game instead of a season; what Speed Survivor is.
- Season-long poolAny pool decided over a full season, with weekly picks and a payout at the end.
- Split the potDividing the prize pool among the entrants left when a contest ends, by rank or by agreement.
Sportsbook and betting terms
- SportsbookAn operator that sets odds on sporting outcomes and pays bettors at those odds, taking the other side of every wager.
- Sports bettingWagering money on a sporting outcome at odds set by a sportsbook.
- OddsThe price a sportsbook sets on an outcome, which fixes what a winning wager pays.
- Point spreadA handicap in points applied to a favorite so that a wager on either team is priced about evenly.
- MoneylineA wager on which team wins outright, priced by odds rather than a spread.
- Over/underA wager on whether a total, usually combined points, finishes above or below a number the book sets.
- ParlayOne wager that combines several selections; all must win for it to pay, at multiplied odds.
- Same game parlayA parlay whose selections all come from one game.
- Prop betA wager on something within a game other than the result, such as a player's yardage or the first score.
- Player propA prop bet on an individual player's statistic.
- Live bettingWagering on a game while it is in progress, at odds that move with the action; also called in-game betting.
- Micro-bettingLive wagers on the next play or drive, settled within minutes.
- VigThe margin built into a sportsbook's odds, also called juice, which is how the house makes money regardless of the result.
Daily fantasy terms
- DFSDaily fantasy sports: contests decided by the real statistics of the players you select, over a day or a week rather than a season.
- Pick emA daily fantasy format where you choose more or less on player stat projections and a fixed multiplier pays if the picks hit.
- Best ballA draft-once fantasy format where your highest-scoring players count automatically each week.
- Fantasy sportsGames where you assemble a roster of real players and score from their real statistics.
Prediction market terms
Promotions and prize terms
- Promo codeA code entered at sign-up that unlocks an operator's welcome offers; Speed Survivor's is SPEED.
- Deposit matchCredit equal to some or all of a first deposit, released as you play; Speed Survivor matches 100% up to $100 at $1 per $10 in entry fees.
- Bonus betsA sportsbook promotion paid as wager credit rather than cash, with the stake usually not returned on a win.
- Referral creditCredit for bringing in a new player, released when they place a qualifying entry; up to $500 a season on Speed Survivor.
- Contest creditPromotional balance that can enter contests but cannot be withdrawn, and expires; winnings are cash, credit is not.
- PlaythroughThe amount you must enter or wager before promotional credit is released or can be withdrawn.
- Guaranteed prize poolAn industry term for a pool the operator promises to pay in full even if entries fall short; Speed Survivor pools are funded by entries and may be topped up, and this site does not describe any pool as guaranteed.
- JackpotA single large prize for a rare outcome; Speed Survivor's is the Perfect 36.
- Prize annuityA prize paid in equal installments over years; the Perfect 36 is thirty payments of $120,000, and $3,600,000 is its total, not its present cash value.
Live play and responsible play
- Second-screen appAn app used on a phone while watching a game on another screen.
- Play-along gameA game whose questions or picks track a live broadcast as it happens.
- Sports triviaQuestion-and-answer games about sports; live prediction differs in asking about what will happen rather than what did.
- Skill-based contestA contest whose outcome turns on the participants' knowledge and judgment rather than chance, which is how Speed Survivor is classified.
- Responsible playThe tools and limits that keep play within your means: deposit limits, self-exclusion, and where to get help.
- Self-exclusionA request to be barred from an operator's contests for a set period or permanently.
- Deposit limitA cap you set on how much you can deposit in a period.
