How to Create a Super Bowl Squares Game for Your Super Bowl LX Party

Planning a Super Bowl party is more than perfecting the cheese dip recipe. It’s about keeping every guest engaged from kickoff to the final whistle. You want happy friends, don't you?

This article is a guide to creating a Super Bowl Squares pool for your party.

What is Super Bowl Squares? It's the ultimate low-stakes tradition that turns every touchdown and missed extra point into a nail-biting win or loss.

This ultimate guide reveals how to set up your grid, manage the buy-in, and keep the energy high all Sunday night.

Explaining Super Bowl Squares

Super Bowl Squares is a pool-style game that can be played either with stakes or not. Play it for crackers. Play it for licorice sticks. Play it for bragging rights if you wish. I like it best when something is at stake, because that means someone might win. And people like a chance to win.

Hosts of a Super Bowl party may choose to offer a prize for the game, based on a contribution for each square. Typical prices for a square are $1 to $5 per square or you can offer a package deal, such as "one square for $5, or three squares for $12" and so on.

The game will have 100 squares in total, representing a trailing digit for the score of each team.

Step-by-Step Guide

1. Print the Super Bowl Squares grid. You can download our free grid here.
2. Place it in a prominent place where your party guests can see it.
3. When a significant portion of your guests have arrived, have them fill in their names inside the individual squares in the 100 square grid.
4. Before the kickoff, randomly assign numbers to each of the columns across the top and rows on the left side of the grid. The numbers are 0-9.
5. Randomly assign the left axis or the top as either Patriots or Seahawks.
6. Ensure that all of the squares have the name of someone at the party.
7. Determine the winning prize or jackpot for each winning square. For example, you may choose to award 25% of the prize pool for each quarter of the game. For example. if the square fee was $1, that means you have $100 in prize money. The winning square for each quarter would be worth $25.

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Rules for Super Bowl Squares Game

• Each person may purchase no more than X number of squares.
• Winners are assigned based on the score of the game at the end of each quarter, and conclusion of the game.
• To find the winning square, pick the column with the last number in the score for that team, and slide down to the row that corresponds to the last number in the score for the opposite team.
• For example: the score is 14-10 at halftime in favor of the Patriots. If the Patriots are listed across the top of your grid, find the column with the number "4," then go down the rows until you find the row assigned as "0" for the Seahawks. That square is the winning square.
• The person who has the winning square gets the prize.
• NOTE: You should determine whether you will determine a winner for the final score of the game based on regulation or overtime.

Is Super Bowl Squares Legal?

The best answer to whether Super Bowl Squares is legal is that yes it is, but it depends. If you offer the game as entertainment at your party among your family and friends, your Super Bowl Squares contest should be fine.

Here are some things you SHOULD NOT DO when offering Super Bowl Squares at your party

• Advertise the Super Bowl Squares contest as a draw to attract attendees to your party
• Require purchase of a square for entry to your party
• Provide additional odds or betting opportunities that make the game something other than fun entertainment for friends
• Take a portion of the square fees for "the house"

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Questions about Super Bowl Squares

Does Super Bowl Squares have odds?

No, a Super Bowl Squares grid is a fun way to add a layer of enjoyment to your Super Bowl Party. The squares are related to the score of the game, regardless of which team wins. Super Bowl odds have nothing to do with the Super Bowl Squares contest.

How many squares on the grid can be winners?

That depends on the score at the end of each quarter. Theoretically, the same square can win all four quarters, if the last digit of the score is the same. Four squares are the most that can be winners.

Can one person win multiple times in Super Bowl Squares?

Yes. That's because one square can be the winning square for more than one quarter. Or, one person may have purchased more than one square, and could be lucky enough to win multiple times.