Task

Scenario: See section below for tester prerequisite skills.

A friend suggests you try sports spread betting. He explains that it's more exciting than traditional sports betting because "the more you are correct, the more you win; but the more you are wrong, the more you can lose".

So you find yourself at the homepage of SportingIndex.com, the number one Sports Spread Betting Site which he recommends....

Task: ***PREREQUISITE: You are familiar with sports betting in the UK. Preferably, you'll have placed a bet before - say on your favourite football team to win the next match, or on a national team to win the World Cup etc. At the VERY least, you'll know how it works. i.e., you choose which team you want to win and if they win, you get rewarded based on the odds at the time you placed your bet. If they lose or they draw, then you will not win and you will lose your stake. Please do not test if this is completely unfamiliar to you.***

TASK: You are tasked with finding out more about spread-betting, and how it differs from 'regular' betting. Please try to find this information on the SportingIndex.com site.

Without going into too much detail (it could take hours for someone to fully understand ALL the differences between the two forms of betting), try to grasp the basic differences. You then decide to see if there is a way you can open a 'test' account where you can play with 'fake' money, as it's better to try something for yourself without any risk than read endless pages of instructions.

You sign-up for a Play For Fun account. [n.b. go through the process as if you were a 'regular' user, though you do not have to use you correct details. When you get to the last step, do not create a new account. Instead, you can use the following login details to access the Play For Fun site]

Login to the Play For Fun site (http://playforfun.sportingindex.com/) using the Account Number - PF8SK and the password testtest.

You know that England are playing Bulgaria at football on Friday night, and you think England will score 5 goals during the match. Locate the section where you can bet on this football match and then bet 10 on England scoring lots of goals (i.e., more than the 'house' thinks there will be). Use any sections of the website to be able to find out more information to enable you to place this bet, i.e. you may have to find info on what this bet is 'called' on the site.

Demographics: Male, , United Kingdom, , Intermediate


TECHNOLOGY REQUIREMENT: Only test if you have knowledge/experience of sports betting.