Stakes vs Jackpot - What's the difference?
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*{{quote-news, year=2012
, date=May 9
, author=John Percy
, title=Birmingham City 2 Blackpool 2 (2-3 on agg): match report
, work=the Telegraph
(stake)
A money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.
* 2000 , Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, Choices, values, and frames ,
A large cash prize or money.
An unexpected windfall or reward.
As nouns the difference between stakes and jackpot
is that stakes is plural of lang=en while jackpot is a money prize pool which accumulates until the conditions are met for it to be won.As a verb stakes
is third-person singular of stake.stakes
English
Noun
(head)citation, page= , passage=Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.}}
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * ----jackpot
English
Etymology 1
Attested as + pot.Noun
(en noun)- If no player picks all six numbers correctly, the jackpot' is rolled over and added to the next week's '''jackpot'''; several weeks of rollovers can build up ' jackpots up to $350 million or more.