Super Bowl Squares Online, Built for the Big Game
Run a Super Bowl squares board for your party, office, or group chat. Set it up in two minutes, share one link, and let everyone fight over squares before kickoff. Quarter winners are marked automatically while you focus on the dip.
Sample board
Green Bay Packers
| 4 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CB | PK | PK | AM | ST | ST | RD | ST | CB | RD |
| 6 | MP | RD | MP | JR | JW | TN | AM | PK | CB | TN |
| 3 | MP | AM | TN
| JW | JR | CB | AM | PK | RD | DL |
| 9 | MP | AM | JW | JW | CB | TN | DL | MP | CB | MP |
| 0 | AM | TN
| TN | PK | AM | JW | CB | PK | DL
| JW |
| 4 | JW | PK | PK
| ST | DL | ST | MP | DL | AM | DL |
| 8 | ST | MP | DL | DL | TN | AM | MP | DL | MP | AM |
| 2 | MP | JR | ST | AM | RD | RD | CB | JR | PK | JW |
| 7 | CB | DL | PK | MP | DL | JR | DL | CB | ST | JW |
| 5 | PK | ST | ST | JR | RD | AM | JW | DL | CB | CB |
- Q1: Packers 7, Cowboys 3.
- Q2: Packers 13, Cowboys 10.
- Q3: Packers 20, Cowboys 10.
- Final: Packers 27, Cowboys 24.
The last digit of each team's score picks the column and the row, and that square wins the period.
Running boards since the 2025 season. No app. No signup for players.
- 1,121 boards created
- 6,529 players with squares on a board
- 1,847 winners marked
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How to Run Super Bowl Squares Online
- Create a free board. Spin up a board and name it whatever you want (Mike's Super Bowl Bash, Office Pool, Tennessee Tailgate Squad). Takes under a minute.
- Share the link. Send it to your group. No app to download, no account needed for the people you invite.
- Players pick their squares. Everyone claims squares right from their phone until the grid fills.
- Draw the numbers. Once the board's full, numbers 0 through 9 shuffle randomly across the grid so nobody can angle for a good square in advance.
- Auto-score every quarter. Scores update live, and winners light up after each quarter and the final. No Venmo confusion at halftime, no commissioner doing math in the kitchen during the third quarter.
Why Hosts Trust Pick My Square
- Free to create, free to join. We never collect anything from players.
- No app to install. Everyone plays from a browser, on any phone or laptop.
Want the real numbers behind the best and worst squares? See our football squares odds, pulled from our own tracked games. Prefer a paper board? Grab a free printable squares template. No game to build around? Run a raffle board instead. New to hosting? See how to run a Super Bowl squares office pool or read the NFL playoff squares guide.
What Are Super Bowl Squares?
Super Bowl squares is the one tradition that gets the casual fan, the diehard, and your aunt who only watches for the commercials all sweating the same play. It's a 10x10 grid: 100 squares, names go in, numbers 0 through 9 get drawn for the rows and columns. After the board fills, every square belongs to a pair of digits, one for each team. The last digit of each team's score after every quarter picks a winner. That's the whole game. No skill, no bracket prep, no excuses.
Squares is the only way to make a 38-3 Super Bowl bearable.
Super Bowl Squares Rules
- One 10x10 grid, 100 squares. Each square pairs one home-team digit with one away-team digit, 0 through 9.
- Numbers are assigned randomly, and only after every square on the grid is claimed.
- Four winners per game: the end of the 1st quarter, halftime, the end of the 3rd quarter, and the final score.
- The winning square each quarter is whichever one matches the last digit of each team's score.
- The host decides, in the board's settings, whether overtime counts toward the final-score winner. Agree on it before kickoff.
How Hosts Usually Split the Winnings
There's no single rule here. It's whatever the organizer sets before kickoff, and here are three common structures to choose from.
- Equal split. All four winners get the same share: 25% each for Q1, halftime, Q3, and the final.
- Weighted final. The last winner gets a bigger cut, commonly 40% for the final score and 20% each for the first three quarters.
- Progressive. Each quarter's share grows, with Q1 worth the least and the final worth the most.
Whatever split you pick, announce it before the board fills so nobody argues about it at halftime.
Best and Worst Super Bowl Squares Numbers
Here's the secret your friend who pretends to be a stats guy already knows. Not all squares are created equal. Football scoring clusters around touchdowns and field goals, which means certain digits show up way more often than others.
The kings of the grid are 0, 3, and 7. Touchdowns push the score to 7 or 14 (last digit 7, then 4), field goals park you on 3, and end-of-quarter scores love a clean 0 or 7. If you land 0-0, 7-0, or 3-0, you're sitting on prime real estate. NFL history backs it up: scores like 27-20, 23-17, and 30-13 land on those exact combinations year after year.
The bottom-feeders are 2, 5, and 9. A 2 needs a safety or a 2-point try. A 5 only happens when a field goal stacks with a safety, or when an extra point goes wrong on the wrong drive. A 9 takes a field goal plus a touchdown with a missed PAT. None of those are routine. Quarters ending in a 2 or a 5 are uncommon across NFL history, and the square 2-2 is the rarest of them all because it requires both teams to land on the same unlucky digit at the same checkpoint.
So when the random draw drops you on 5-5, just laugh and start rooting for chaos. Squares is luck either way, but at least now you know whether to brag or cry when the numbers come out. Either way, the digits get assigned after the grid fills. That's why this is bragging-rights context, not strategy advice.
That's the classic shorthand, and it holds up early in the game. Want the exact numbers, quarter by quarter, straight from our own tracked games instead of tradition? See the full football squares odds breakdown.
When the Numbers Get Drawn (And Why It Matters)
Numbers are assigned to the grid after every square is claimed, and it has to work that way for the pool to be fair. If digits go up before squares are filled, players race to claim the high-value real estate (0-0, 7-0) and everyone else feels cheated. Random assignment after the board fills is the rule that keeps a squares pool from turning into a fight at the food table.
Pick My Square handles the randomization for you. The grid fills, you draw the numbers with one click, the digits shuffle, and everyone sees their numbers at the same time. Anyone who tells you "I'll let you pick your numbers up front" is running a busted pool, and you can skip it.
Going analog this year? Print a free squares template and draw the digits with our number generator so the board stays fair even on paper.
Super Bowl Squares for Different Crowds
Home watch party. Twelve people on the couch, a counter full of food, and a 10x10 board on someone's phone keeps everyone glued to the score even when Patrick Mahomes isn't on the field. Every score change becomes a reason to yell.
Office pool. The Super Bowl is the one day everyone in the building is talking about the same thing. A squares board makes Monday's water-cooler conversation about the third quarter, not the halftime show. Our Super Bowl squares office pool guide covers HR-friendly setup and remote teammates.
Bar or restaurant. Running a board for the regulars turns a busy Super Bowl Sunday into a bigger night. Hand out squares with the round, announce winners between quarters, and the room stays loud until the final whistle.
Fundraiser. Schools, booster clubs, charity groups: a squares board gives supporters a reason to show up, share the link, and stay for all four quarters. The fundraising side stays with the organizer, run however your group already runs it.
Boards are free, no portal needed. Running this for an organization every season? A branded portal gives your group its own URL, logo, and theme, plus tools built for organized pools. Schools, fire departments, and bars use it to run squares year after year.
Common Variations and House Rules
The standard pool is one 10x10 grid with four quarter winners. House rules can pull it in different directions:
- Reverse the digits at halftime. Classic anti-collusion move. The Q3 and final winners use a flipped grid. Cuts your odds of dominating with one lucky square.
- Weighted final. Some groups make the final score count for more than the first three quarters. Good when you want the most-watched moment to matter most.
- A winner on every score change. Some pools name a winner every time the score's last digits change, not just at the end of a quarter. Way more winners, and nobody tunes out after halftime.
- Two-grid pool. If your group has more than 100 people, run two grids. Each grid has its own quarter winners. Beats turning people away.
Pick My Square supports the standard 10x10 with quarter winners. For variations, run a side pool on top of the main board. Running boards through the whole postseason, not just the Super Bowl? The NFL playoff squares guide covers Wild Card through the championship.
Set Up Your Super Bowl Squares Board
Free. Share a link. 100 squares. Four winners. No app required.
Set Up Your BoardBeyond the Super Bowl
Squares pools aren't just for one Sunday. Football squares works for any NFL game on the schedule (Sunday Night, MNF, fantasy night, playoffs). When the season's over, March Madness squares picks up in March, and NBA Playoffs squares runs through May and June. Prefer picking winners over sweating score digits? March Madness bracket pools are open year-round. One account runs all of it.
The road to the Super Bowl has its own pages too. NFL playoff squares covers Wild Card weekend through the conference championships, and College Football Playoff squares covers bowl season and the 12-team field on the college side. Thanksgiving football squares and Christmas football squares cover the holiday slate earlier in the season.