Verify a Prime ticket
Locked before kick-off. A SHA-256 fingerprint is published before the matches. After settlement, the frozen ticket is released so the fingerprint can be checked.
Commitment publishedFriday, 16 October 2026Frozen before kick-off. The full ticket is released after every ticket on this day has settled.
- Prime is frozen before kick-off, from that morning’s already-frozen Board.
- A SHA-256 fingerprint of the frozen ticket is published straight away, here and on the Prime page.
- The fingerprint chains to the previous Prime day: changing an old ticket would change every fingerprint after it.
- Prime also records the fingerprint of the Board it came from, so the ticket can be traced to its source.
- After settlement the complete frozen ticket is released as a file, every selection included, win or lose.
- Anyone can recompute the fingerprint from that file and compare it with the one published before the matches.
Friday, 16 October 2026
- Frozen at
- 06:03 UTC (2026-10-16T06:03:21.813Z)
- Fingerprint
- 36c3cd5f47a93f07af9f62c70301a6f3517b84f245881194bf3469b426618804
- Previous fingerprint
- 115d3e73023d72b1ed64a5397f8b11c30650f63b4c77144813edfe23f8e69623
- Source Board
- d597d1584bae732889336f189abb1cab80c35745d2387bbde9297e81b388e3f3
- Canonical version
- 1
- Tickets
- Prime 3: ticket, priced, pending
Prime 4: ticket, priced, pending - Frozen ticket file
- released after every ticket on this day has settled
Check it yourself, offline
The fingerprint is sha256(prev_hash + "\n" + canonical_json), where the canonical JSON is the ticket definition (selections, probabilities, prices, the source Board fingerprint) with sorted keys and no whitespace. Results are not in it, so settling a ticket cannot change it. A standalone script with no dependencies does the arithmetic:
python verify_prime.py prime-2026-10-16.json --expect 36c3cd5f47a9… --prev prime-2026-10-15.jsonDownload verify_prime.py · Download prime-2026-10-15.json · Fingerprint as JSON
What this does and does not prove
- It proves the selections were fixed before the matches and were not changed afterwards.
- It proves the losing tickets are the same tickets that were frozen, because their fingerprints are in the chain.
- It does not prove the selections were good. That is what the record is for, losing days included.
