--- title: Here's What People Are Betting Will Happen on 'Thrones' description: Here's how people are betting on the 'Game of Thrones' finale episode canonical: https://time.com/5588253/game-of-thrones-odds/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-14T20:23:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:58:57.994Z og:title: Here's What People Are Betting Will Happen on 'Thrones' og:description: People are betting online about the chances of survival for these characters og:url: https://time.com/5588253/game-of-thrones-odds/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829a1e3e68f00aac/69894982929fad3bf8bf329a/game-of-thrones-s8-e4-grey-worm-daenerys-tyrion.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3733 og:image:height: 2100 og:image:alt: Game-of-Thrones-S8-E4-Grey-Worm-Daenerys-Tyrion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What People Are Betting Will Happen on 'Thrones' twitter:description: People are betting online about the chances of survival for these characters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt829a1e3e68f00aac/69894982929fad3bf8bf329a/game-of-thrones-s8-e4-grey-worm-daenerys-tyrion.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's What People Are Betting Will Happen on the _Game of Thrones_ Finale > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 14, 2019 8:23 PM UTC  HBO  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner May 14, 2019 8:23 PM UTC With just one episode of [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5588182/game-of-thrones-family-history-jon-snow/) left in the show’s eighth and final season, fans are making their final predictions on who lives, who dies and who will sit on the Seven Kingdoms’ hotly contested [Iron Throne](http://time.com/5550981/game-of-thrones-who-will-win/) — and they’re putting their money down quite literally. (Let’s hope it’s a better investment than [Cersei’s decision](http://time.com/5588396/lena-headey-cersei-lannister-game-of-thrones-final-scene/) to shell out for the Golden Company.) [Paddy Power](https://www.paddypower.com/bet), an online betting site in the U.K., calculated the updated odds on a future ruler — or rulers! — of Westeros and survival rates for the rest of the _Thrones_ cast following the [penultimate episode](http://time.com/5588147/game-of-thrones-green-fire-jon-daenerys/). Things have certainly changed for Daenerys Targaryen, Mother of Dragons, following her fiery rampage at King’s Landing: she’s now by far the favorite to die according to popular opinion on Paddy Power, with 1/4 odds for her death, which comes to about 80%. Of the other still-living fan favorites, Jon Snow has 5/4 odds to die, 4/7 to live; Tyrion Lannister is 6/4 to die, 1/2 to live; and Arya Stark is 5/2 to die, 1/4 to live, making her survival exactly opposite of Dany’s projected death. As for the final ruler of the Seven Kingdoms? Paddy Power players seem to think Bran Stark will take the crown, with 5/4 odds. He’s followed by his sister Sansa Stark at 5/2 odds, Jon Snow at 4/1, Arya Stark at 6/1 and no one at all with 8/1 odds. (At the very bottom of the list, with 400/1 odds, is good old [Hot Pie](http://time.com/4355413/game-of-thrones-characters-returning/item/hot-pie/).) The final episode of _Game of Thrones_ airs on HBO at 9 p.m. on May 19, at which point we’ll know which bets were dead on, and which were just dead. 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