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Pick two national teams to face off.

Paul weighs FIFA ranking, recent form and head-to-head record.

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Matches

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🇲🇽 MexicovCroatia 🇭🇷
Group AJun 11, 7:00 PMEstadio Azteca, Mexico City
Pault: Croatia18%
🇺🇸 USAvUruguay 🇺🇾
Group DJun 12, 11:00 PMSoFi Stadium, Los Angeles
Pault: Uruguay16%
🇨🇦 CanadavSwitzerland 🇨🇭
Group BJun 13, 6:00 PMBMO Field, Toronto
Pault: Switzerland18%
🇦🇷 ArgentinavJapan 🇯🇵
Group JJun 13, 9:00 PMMetLife Stadium, New Jersey
Pault: Argentina91%
🇪🇸 SpainvDenmark 🇩🇰
Group HJun 14, 7:00 PMAT&T Stadium, Dallas
Pault: Spain91%
🇫🇷 FrancevSenegal 🇸🇳
Group IJun 14, 10:00 PMMercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta
Pault: France91%

About Pault, the octopus oracle

Pault is a playful World Cup match predictor inspired by Paul the Octopus, the cephalopod who famously forecast results at the 2010 tournament. Choose any two national teams and Pault predicts a winner using a transparent, weighted model.

How the prediction works

Each forecast blends three signals: a team's FIFA-style ranking points (weighted most heavily), their recent form across the last five matches, and a deterministic head-to-head bias for the specific matchup. The result is a win probability, a conviction score, and the single factor that most influenced the call. It is built for fun and is not betting advice.

Community predictions

After Pault makes a call you can back it or doubt it. Votes feed a live leaderboard showing which teams the crowd is backing across all predictions.

World Cup fixtures and live scores

Pault tracks upcoming World Cup fixtures and recent results, and automatically forecasts a winner for each scheduled match using the same ranking, form and head-to-head model. Browse the fixtures and scores to see what Pault expects next and how recent matches finished.