Best Bets for a Dollar This Week

Every day, Dollar Bets curates the most interesting prediction markets and frames them by what a single dollar could pay. This page collects the week's highlights — the markets that made the daily board for a reason.

We scan thousands of markets across prediction market platforms and surface the ones that are genuinely interesting to a normal human being. The criteria: cultural relevance, entertainment value, payout drama, and the question 'would you talk about this in a group chat?' If the answer is yes, it makes the list.

Check today's board for the latest picks. This page is updated weekly with a recap of the markets that defined the week — the ones that moved, the ones that expired, and the ones that are still cooking.

Every market is color-coded by what $1 would return: 🟩 respectable ($1–$10), 🟨 alive ($11–$50), 🟧 heater ($51–$100), 🟥 filthy ($101–$500), 🟪 generational ($500+). The tier tells you how unlikely the market thinks it is. Most weeks, the board spans at least three tiers — a mix of reasonable bets and absolute chaos.

Markets move. A bet that looked insane on Monday might look plausible by Friday — or vice versa. The weekly view lets you see patterns: which categories are heating up, which markets are getting new attention, and which longshots are quietly dying. It's also a good entry point if the daily board feels like too much. Start with the week, then go deeper.

Some won. Most lost. A few are still open. That's prediction markets. The board doesn't pretend otherwise — we show the payout because it's entertaining, not because we think you should mortgage anything for a weather contract in May.