How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl

• How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Commercials
• How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Predictions
• How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Game
• How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Selections

1. Feb 03, 2019 The setup for Super Bowl squares is simple. Create four 10-by-10 boards (one for each quarter), with zero-to-10 on each axis. The Patriots will take one axis, placing the Rams on the other.
2. Jan 23, 2020 In most Super Bowl squares, a winner will be determined at the end of the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, plus the final game score. The winner is decided by looking at the last.

Super Bowl squares, also known as football squares, have become a staple of Super Bowl parties everywhere – an easy and fun way for guests to bet on the outcome of the game.

So as this year's Super Bowl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs approaches – featuring two of the NFL's top quarterbacks in Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes – it's time to get up to speed on how it all works and how you can put yourself in the best position to win.

Super Bowl squares are played on a 10 by 10 grid. It looks similar to a bingo card in a way. One team is assigned the rows, the other the columns. Then, each column and row is randomly assigned a number between zero and nine.

Here's USA TODAY Sports' primer on Super Bowl squares, how they work and which squares are most likely to pay off on Sunday.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Commercials

How do Super Bowl squares work?

The game starts with a 10-by-10 grid, or 100 individual boxes — each of which is assigned a universal price tag, like $1 per square. Before the Super Bowl kicks off, participants purchase individual boxes — generally as many as they wish — until all 100 of them are accounted for. The numbers 0-9 are then assigned to the columns and rows (usually at random), giving two numbers to each individual cell.

From here, the game can be played a few different ways. Typically, one axis represents the last digit of the NFC team's score and the other represents the last digit of the AFC team's score. Whoever has the correct digits of the final score wins the pot; If the Bucs win 28-21, for example, the winning square would be where the No. 8 on the NFC axis meets the No. 1 on the AFC axis.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Predictions

What other Super Bowl square options are there?

Costa bingo redeem points. One of the most popular variations on Super Bowl squares is to pay out 25% of the pot at the end of every quarter, rather than all of it at the end of the game. (Or, in some cases, 20% at the end of the first and third quarters, and 30% at the end of each half). This makes it more likely that there will be multiple winners, albeit with smaller shares of the pot.

What are the best squares to have?

The values on each axis are usually assigned at random, so you might not have a choice here. But if you do, your best bet will generally be some combination of zeroes and/or sevens. In a 2013 blog post, the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective wrote that the single best square to have is seven on the favorite's axis (the Chiefs are the favorites this year) and zero on the underdog's, with the 0-0 square a close second. The Washington Post lists 0-0 as the best square to have, with the two combinations of seven and zero (7-0 or 0-7) right behind it. Three, four and one also aren't bad numbers to have from an odds standpoint.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Game

What are the worst squares to have?

Super Bowl squares, also known as football squares, have become a staple of Super Bowl parties everywhere – an easy and fun way for guests to bet on the outcome of the game.

So as this year's Super Bowl between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs approaches – featuring two of the NFL's top quarterbacks in Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes – it's time to get up to speed on how it all works and how you can put yourself in the best position to win.

Super Bowl squares are played on a 10 by 10 grid. It looks similar to a bingo card in a way. One team is assigned the rows, the other the columns. Then, each column and row is randomly assigned a number between zero and nine.

Here's USA TODAY Sports' primer on Super Bowl squares, how they work and which squares are most likely to pay off on Sunday.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Commercials

How do Super Bowl squares work?

The game starts with a 10-by-10 grid, or 100 individual boxes — each of which is assigned a universal price tag, like $1 per square. Before the Super Bowl kicks off, participants purchase individual boxes — generally as many as they wish — until all 100 of them are accounted for. The numbers 0-9 are then assigned to the columns and rows (usually at random), giving two numbers to each individual cell.

From here, the game can be played a few different ways. Typically, one axis represents the last digit of the NFC team's score and the other represents the last digit of the AFC team's score. Whoever has the correct digits of the final score wins the pot; If the Bucs win 28-21, for example, the winning square would be where the No. 8 on the NFC axis meets the No. 1 on the AFC axis.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Predictions

What other Super Bowl square options are there?

Costa bingo redeem points. One of the most popular variations on Super Bowl squares is to pay out 25% of the pot at the end of every quarter, rather than all of it at the end of the game. (Or, in some cases, 20% at the end of the first and third quarters, and 30% at the end of each half). This makes it more likely that there will be multiple winners, albeit with smaller shares of the pot.

What are the best squares to have?

The values on each axis are usually assigned at random, so you might not have a choice here. But if you do, your best bet will generally be some combination of zeroes and/or sevens. In a 2013 blog post, the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective wrote that the single best square to have is seven on the favorite's axis (the Chiefs are the favorites this year) and zero on the underdog's, with the 0-0 square a close second. The Washington Post lists 0-0 as the best square to have, with the two combinations of seven and zero (7-0 or 0-7) right behind it. Three, four and one also aren't bad numbers to have from an odds standpoint.

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Game

What are the worst squares to have?

How Do Squares Work For Super Bowl Selections

Any combination of twos or fives. According to the aforementioned Harvard Sports Analysis Collective post from 2013, the 2-2 square and 2-5 square (two on the favorite's axis, five on the underdog's) are among the worst, because it usually takes some combination of safeties, missed extra points or other general strangeness to get there.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: How to play Super Bowl squares 2021: Here are the rules you need to know