Super Bowl squares: How to play the football game
Most of the action will be on the football field Sunday, but that doesn’t mean viewers of Super Bowl LIII can’t join in on the fun at home as well.
Super Bowl squares, otherwise known as football squares, is a game perfect for Super Bowl parties because it lets people bet on the outcome of America's most-watched game.
With the face-off between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams fast approaching, this is what you need to know about playing and winning Super Bowl squares.
How do you play?
To play the game, you start with a 10-by-10 grid, which results in 100 boxes.
The Patriots are assigned to either the rows or columns, and the Rams are assigned to the other side.
Players then purchase however many squares they’d like - which all cost the same price.
Then, a number one through nine is randomly assigned to all of the columns, and all of the rows.
Each box will have two numbers.
Winners of the game are typically identified at the end of the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, and end of the football game.
The winner is determined by the last digit in each teams’ score - which will match a box on the grid.
For example, if the final score is Rams 23-14, the box belonging to the person who bought Rams row three and Patriots column four would win.
How much does each winner get?
Typically, the winners for every quarter get 25 per cent.
You can also play the game by awarding 20 per cent of the pot to each of the winners of the first three quarters, and the remainder to the final winner.
What boxes are the best?
The game is mostly random, however, The Washington Post suggests zero-zero is the best square to have considering the odds, followed by boxes with combinations of seven and zero.
And according to a blog post from the Harvard Sports Analysis Collective, the worst squares are the two-two square and the two-five square because it typically requires a combination of unusual plays in the game to get a score with those numbers at the end.
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The Super Bowl will take place Sunday, February 3.
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