Glossary | Orange Ferry

The ferry

The furniture: what the site is and what the main areas are called.

Orange FerryThis website: A free football prediction game wrapped around a football hub. The name is where the whole vocabulary comes from: matches are crossings, you board them, and the ferry sails whether or not you turned up.
The boardThe fixtures and results display: Named after a departure board in a terminal. The board is always public — anyone can read the fixtures and the final scores without an account. Your individual picks are not on it.
The terminalThe football hub: The part of the site that is not the game: today’s matches across every competition we carry, league tables, squads, players, news and transfers. Go there
RouteA competition: One league or tournament — the Premier League, La Liga, the Champions League. Your picks and your position are tracked per route, so a bad season in one does not follow you into another.

Making picks

Everything you touch on the predict page.

CrossingA single match: One fixture between two clubs. Every crossing takes exactly one pick from you: home, draw, or away.
SailingA matchweek: The full set of crossings in one round of a competition. "Next sailing" and "previous sailing" move you between matchweeks.
DepartureKickoff: When a match starts. A crossing "departs at kickoff" — clock time, local to you.
Cast offThe pick deadline: Picks lock one hour before kickoff. Once we cast off, that crossing is settled: you cannot change your call, and you cannot add one late.
Claim your seatMake your pick: Choosing a side on a crossing. Until the deadline you can change your mind as often as you like.
Sail with themPick this team to win: The button under each club on a match. Picking the draw means sailing with neither.
AboardYour current pick: The side you are currently on for a crossing. It shows on the club you have selected.
SeatA locked-in pick: Once a crossing has cast off, your pick is your seat on it — fixed, and scored against the final result.
Green pickA normal pick: Worth 3 points if you call the result correctly and 0 if you do not. Most of your picks are green picks.
Orange pickA guaranteed single point: Worth exactly 1 point whatever happens — right, wrong, or a draw you did not see coming. You get three per matchweek.
Life ringThe same thing as an orange pick: What the UI calls an orange pick, because that is what it does: it stops a crossing you have no read on from scoring you zero. Three a week, and they do not carry over.
Rough waterA match you cannot call: A derby, a cup tie, anything genuinely unpredictable. The advice to "save them for rough water" means spend your life rings on the fixtures you have least confidence in.
ArrivedA finished match: A crossing that has played out and been scored. On the board, arrived crossings show the final score instead of a kickoff time.
Crossings sailedMatches you have picked: Your running count of crossings you made a pick on. "Crossings booked" is the same count before they have played.

Where you stand

Your record, and how you compare with everyone else.

ManifestThe leaderboard: A ship’s manifest lists everyone aboard. Ours lists every player on a route, ordered by points. It updates itself as results come in.
Log bookYour pick history: Every crossing you have sailed and how each one settled — what you picked, what happened, and what it scored. Empty until you have made your first picks.
Player cardA shareable image of your season: A card with your record on it that you can download and post. You choose what it shows before you share it.
ChallengeA head-to-head against a friend: A private matchweek contest. You share a link, they pick the same crossings, and the two records are compared when the week settles.
PassengersThe other people in your challenge: Everyone who has joined a challenge you created, or that you have joined.
Boarding inviteA challenge link: The link that brings someone into your challenge. The shared player card is only the invite — they still need to make their own picks.
Board nowSign up: Create an account. Free, and you can start picking on the landing page before you make one.
Prediction passThe ticket stub on the home page: The orange stub beside the first fixture, printed like a real ferry ticket. It is decorative — the matchweek and route on it are live, but it is not something you hold or spend.

The hub

The football sections that are not part of the game.

The wireThe news page: Football headlines gathered from public publisher feeds. Every headline links straight back to whoever wrote it. Go there
The gangwayThe transfers page: Transfer news and the rumour mill — the way in and out of a club. Same rule as the wire: every line links to its source. Go there

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