{"id":132592,"date":"2019-04-04T18:17:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=132592"},"modified":"2025-07-01T22:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T05:08:11","slug":"game-of-thrones-finale-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/game-of-thrones-finale-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"The surprising favorite to rule at the end of Game of Thrones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-132596\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/hound_game_of_thrones.jpg\" alt=\"Hound\" width=\"700\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The final season of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; is approaching steadily and surely, like an army of White Walkers headed for the wall. Fan theories are running rampant about how it will all go down. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recent trailer<\/a> provides only a small glimpse of the battle to come. So we checked with an online betting site to reveal what people are actually willing to wager on.<\/p>\n<h2>Who will rule Westeros at the end of Season 8?<\/h2>\n<p>Bovada says this wager &#8220;will be settled based on the confirmed &#8216;King&#8217; or &#8216;Queen&#8217; of the Andals and the First Men. If there is no King or Queen, whoever rules or controls King&#8217;s Landing will be deemed the winner.&#8221; Here are the odds. (Remember, the higher the number, the less likely it is to happen.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bran Stark +300<\/li>\n<li>Jon Snow +350<\/li>\n<li>Daenerys Targaryen +500<\/li>\n<li>Sansa Stark +600<\/li>\n<li>Gendry +700<\/li>\n<li>The Night King +1,000<\/li>\n<li>Tyrion Lannister +1,000<\/li>\n<li>Arya Stark +1,400<\/li>\n<li>Jon and Daenerys&#8217; Baby(!) +1,400<\/li>\n<li>Petyr Baelish (even though he&#8217;s dead?!?) +1,400<\/li>\n<li>Samwell Tarly +1,400<\/li>\n<li>Cersei Lannister +2,500<\/li>\n<li>Jaime Lannister +3,000<\/li>\n<li>Varys +5,000<\/li>\n<li>Davos Seaworth +6,600<\/li>\n<li>Bronn +7,500<\/li>\n<li>Breinne\u00a0of Tarth +10,000<\/li>\n<li>Euron Greyjoy\u00a0+10,000<\/li>\n<li>Gilly\u00a0+10,000<\/li>\n<li>Jaqen H&#8217;ghar\u00a0+10,000<\/li>\n<li>Jorah Mormont\u00a0+10,000<\/li>\n<li>Beric Dondarrion\u00a0+12,500<\/li>\n<li>Daario Naharis\u00a0+12,500<\/li>\n<li>Melisandre +12,500<\/li>\n<li>The Hound\u00a0+12,500<\/li>\n<li>The Mountain\u00a0+15,000<\/li>\n<li>Theon Greyjoy\u00a0+15,000<\/li>\n<li>Tormund Giantsbane\u00a0+15,000<\/li>\n<li>Yara Greyjoy\u00a0+15,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are some crazy odds. They give the Zombie Mountain the same chance as Theon at sitting on the Iron Throne? At least Theon can string a sentence together. Also, why does Littlefinger have any chance at this? His throat was slit in Season 7.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2018\/08\/jon-snow-game-of-thrones-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">We broke down the new Game of Thrones Season 8 trailer, frame by frame<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Read Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/game-of-thrones-season-8-trailer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<h3>Why is Bran the favorite to rule?<\/h3>\n<p>It ties into the whole <a href=\"https:\/\/gameofthrones.fandom.com\/wiki\/Three-Eyed_Raven\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Three-Eyed Raven<\/a> subplot. Remember, <strong>Bran has shown the ability to shout through time.<\/strong> His father Ned appeared to hear him when he spoke during the flashback to Jon Snow&#8217;s birth. Hodor obviously heard Meera shouting &#8220;hold the door&#8221; via Bran&#8217;s vision. But weirdly, Meera was shouting in the present and it somehow echoed back to Hodor as a child (then named Wylis).<\/p>\n<p>And there&#8217;s the thought that the Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, was shouting &#8220;Burn them all&#8221; because he was getting some sort of message from Bran in the future &#8211; perhaps Bran is screaming for everyone to burn the White Walkers and it somehow rippled back in time to Aerys, which led Jaime to stick a sword through his back.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that Bran is named for his &#8220;relative,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/gameofthrones.fandom.com\/wiki\/Brandon_Stark_%28the_Builder%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Bran the Builder<\/strong><\/a>, who was responsible for building the wall in the first place. Is <em>this<\/em> Brandon Stark the same Brandon Stark from back then? Another possible time-travel clue: Sam finds the buried dragonglass\u00a0at the Fist of the First Men. Maybe a time-traveling Bran left it there for them. <strong>Is this whole world just one big loop?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With all this said, the bet could be pointless. In the upcoming battle, anything could happen. In the aftermath, it&#8217;s possible the survivors may decide that kings are stupid, so they discard the idea of a\u00a0monarchy altogether. Or maybe there&#8217;s some kind of truce with the White Walkers. The show could go a million different ways, and the person sitting on the throne could be the least interesting footnote of all of this.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a bet that&#8217;s sure to matter&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Who will die first in Season 8?<\/h2>\n<p>Bovada&#8217;s odds paint a sad picture for the Iron Islands.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Euron Greyjoy +145<\/li>\n<li>Yara Greyjoy +300<\/li>\n<li>Theon Greyjoy +500<\/li>\n<li>Cersei Lannister +650<\/li>\n<li>Sansa Stark +1,000<\/li>\n<li>Jaime Lannister +1,200<\/li>\n<li>Daenerys Targaryen +3,300<\/li>\n<li>Arya Stark +5,000<\/li>\n<li>Tyrion Lannister +5,000<\/li>\n<li>Jon Snow +10,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Winter is coming, friends. <strong>The final season of &#8220;Game of Thrones&#8221; begins April 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-card-starred-link\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-starred-link__img\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2019\/04\/Daenerys-Targaryen-game-of-thrones-game-192.jpg\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-starred-link__col-title\">\r\n        <p class=\"sc-card-starred-link__title\">Game of Thrones: Winter is Coming (official browser game)<\/p>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__button\" href=\"https:\/\/ads.ad4game.com\/www\/delivery\/dck.php?offerid=948&amp;zoneid=60504&amp;subid=mkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\">Play Now \u25ba<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-starred-link__link\" href=\"https:\/\/ads.ad4game.com\/www\/delivery\/dck.php?offerid=948&amp;zoneid=60504&amp;subid=mkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smart money says the final ruler won&#8217;t be Jon or Daenerys. Who is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9139,"featured_media":132594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[3150],"tags":[2538,1830,1862],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-132592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfinale","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-odds"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326299,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132592\/revisions\/326299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132592"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=132592"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=132592"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=132592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}