How to Read Market Rules on Polymarket (US 2026)

Official Browse Markets: each card shows the market question, the current Yes and No prices, and a resolution date. That is the named retail tile. Official Place a Trade: tap any market to open it. Official Market Clarification: markets resolve based on the rules shown on that market page. Official Browse Markets does not list a Rules line on the card. We will not invent a home-screen “Rules” chip those pages do not print. If the sports desk is hidden where you live, stop.

Official Market Clarification names the rules shown on the market page and a rules section. Official Place a Trade does not reprint a retail tab labelled “Rules,” “Resolution,” or “Sources” on the swipe we checked. We will not invent one. The action is: on the opened ticket, look at the rules shown on that market page — scroll to the rules section if the live screen puts them below the Yes/No. If the live control is labelled differently — or is missing — use the live screen. Official Website vs App: US residents do that in the Polymarket US app.

Official Market Clarification: when the exchange needs extra clarity, a clarification appears at the top of the rules section as an Additional context message. Those notes specify how the existing rules should be understood. They do not change the market question. Official copy says always read the rules and any clarifications before trading. If Additional context is on the ticket in front of you, read it before the rest of the block.

Official Market Rules list official sources used to confirm the outcome. Official Market Resolution: markets resolve using the specific sources listed in the rules; unlisted sources have no effect. Official Market Rules teaching examples name a governing league, an official data provider, or listed news sources that must agree. Those are published example types. We will not invent the vendor on tonight’s ticket. The source printed in that rules section is the one that grades.

Official Browse Markets names the market question on every card. Official Events & Markets: a market is one Yes/No about an event. That sentence is what you are buying. It is not who grades it, what counts, when it is evaluated, or what happens if the event is cancelled. Official Market Clarification: clarifications do not change the market question. A matching title on a sportsbook slip, a recap, or this site is still not the rules block.

Official Market Rules put resolution criteria, qualifying requirements, a Resolution Timeframe, and listed sources in the rules — not in the title. Official Events & Markets: one game can hold several Yes/No tickets. “Will this team win?” is not “win by more than X,” and a player-stat sentence is not the game. How to read a Polymarket NFL contract is that mapping. This page does not clone it. If you only read the logos, you can buy the wrong event.

Official Market Rules begin with resolution criteria: the conditions for Yes or No, plus any alternative settlement — their teaching example includes a cancelled game that settles 50-50. Qualifying requirements, non-examples, and edge-case scenarios show how that sentence applies when the picture is messy. The title will not print those carve-outs. If the rules are blank or you do not understand a qualifying line, do not click.

Official Market Rules: the criteria describe the conditions for the market to resolve to Yes or No. Alternative settlement terms also appear here, including situations where the market settles at 0.50. Official Market Settlement: when alternative settlement applies, Clearing follows the Settlement Description on that market. We do not invent a 50-50 for a ticket that does not print one.

Official Market Rules add these when the sentence needs extra clarity: a qualifying requirement, a non-example, and an edge-case scenario. Official Market Clarification teaching examples include a cut-off time, which announcement channel counts, and which official source counts. Those are docs examples, not a house rule we paste onto every NFL ticket. Read the ones on the ticket in front of you.

Official Market Rules specify when the outcome is evaluated. Their teaching examples include “results available at 11:59 PM ET on the end date” and “if the event does not occur by 11:59 PM ET.” Those are published teaching lines, not a sports-game lock we reprint as tonight’s rule. How to check when a Polymarket market ends is the clock. This page only tells you the timeframe, if printed, lives in the rules — not in the title.

Official Market Rules list the official sources used to confirm the outcome. Unlisted sources have no effect. Official Market Resolution repeats that: specific sources listed in the rules; unlisted sources have no effect. Official Sports FAQs add a sports hierarchy — governing body first, then that body’s own paper, then named wires only if the first two fail — and How Polymarket resolves NFL games is that grade. This page does not clone it. The source printed on this ticket still wins if it is tighter.

Official Market Rules teaching copy says the source can be a governing league, an official data provider, or listed news sources. Official Market Resolution names government, sports (governing league or competition organizer), and news as source types. Official Sports FAQs name the league first. None of those pages name a retail stats brand we can reprint as the house vendor. We will not invent Sportradar, a box-score app, or a broadcast graphic as the grade. If the ticket names a provider, that name is the rule. If it does not, do not fill the blank.

Official Market Resolution and Official Market Settlement: resolutions and settlements are final in accordance with the Polymarket US Exchange Rulebook those pages cite. Official Market Clarification is how the exchange may add Additional context before you trade — not a post-grade protest desk. Official Market Integrity FAQs point at a policy page; Official “How do I contact support?” is a support article. The public US help we checked does not publish a retail dispute / appeal click path. We will not invent one, a UMA poll, or a “file a ticket and the score flips” story.

Hard rule: if official US help names the field, we name it. Official Market Clarification names the rules shown on the market page, a rules section, and Additional context. Official Market Rules name resolution criteria, qualifying requirements, a Resolution Timeframe, and resolution sources. Official Place a Trade does not reprint a retail column labelled “Rules” or “Resolution source” on the swipe we checked. We will not invent those headers. The action is: open the ticket, read the printed question, then look at the rules on that same page before you tap Yes or No.