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Patent Bet Explained
A Patent is seven bets on three selections: three singles, three doubles and one treble. With a single on each selection, one winner is enough to get something back. Your stake is per bet, so a £1 Patent costs £7, and an each-way Patent at £1 a bet costs £14. We don’t take sports bets at Fortune Games, which is an online casino, so this is a guide to how the bet works.
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The seven bets inside a Patent
| Bet type | How many | Winners needed |
|---|---|---|
| Singles | 3 | 1 |
| Doubles | 3 | 2 |
| Treble | 1 | 3 |
It is a Trixie with a single on each selection added. The four-selection version with singles is a Lucky 15.
A Trixie has no singles, so it needs at least two winners before it returns anything. Four selections without singles make a Yankee of 11 bets, while five selections with singles make a Lucky 31 of 31 bets. Go up to six selections without singles and you have a Heinz, 57 bets in all.
The three selections are in different events. Patents are most often placed on horse racing, with one horse in each of three races, but the same seven bets work on football or other sports.
What a Patent costs
Your stake is per bet, so the total is seven times your unit stake: 50p a bet costs £3.50 and £2 a bet costs £14. Each-way doubles the number of bets to 14, and the place half pays at a fraction of the odds.
In an each-way Patent every bet has a win part and a place part of the same size, and the two halves are settled separately, win part with win part and place part with place part. A horse that finishes placed but not first loses its win stake, while its place stake is paid at the place fraction of its odds.
A worked example
Say you place a £1 Patent with a bookmaker (£7 in total) on three selections at 2/1, 3/1 and 4/1.
If only the 2/1 selection wins, its single returns £3, a loss of £4. If the 2/1 and 3/1 selections win, their two singles and the double return £19, £12 more than the stake. If all three win, all seven bets pay: £119 in total.
That £119 is £12 from the three singles, £47 from the three doubles and £60 from the treble. Each multiple carries its whole return on to the next selection: £1 at 2/1 returns £3, which goes on at 3/1 to make £12, and that £12 at 4/1 makes £60.
Frequently asked questions
How many bets are in a Patent?
Seven, all at the same unit stake: three singles, three doubles and one treble, built from three selections in different events. Each of the seven is a separate bet with its own return, which is why the total stake is seven times what you put on each one.
How does a Patent bet work?
Every one of the seven bets is settled separately. The singles each need only their own selection to win, the doubles need both of their selections, and the treble needs all three. One winner therefore pays a single, two winners pay two singles and a double, and three winners pay everything.
Do you get anything back with one winner in a Patent?
Yes: that selection’s single pays, and nothing else does. How much comes back depends on the winner’s odds. In the worked example above, a lone 2/1 winner returns £3 from a £7 stake.
What is the difference between a Patent and a Trixie?
A Trixie is the same bet without the three singles, so it is four bets and needs two winners.
Related guides
Checked on 1 November 2026 against Wikipedia’s glossary of bets offered by UK bookmakers, OLBG’s guide to horse racing bet types, Gambling.com’s Patent guide, the Gambling Commission’s public register and time-out rules, our terms and conditions, FAQ and responsible gaming pages, and the lobby feed. How we research and check our guides: our editorial policy.