Super Bowl Quarter Scores for Every Game, With the Winning Squares

Seattle led Super Bowl LX 3-0 after one quarter, 9-0 at halftime and 12-0 after three, and the game finished Seattle 29, New England 13 at Levi's Stadium. New England didn't score until the fourth quarter, which is why the first three prizes on every board in the country landed in the same column: the home team's 0.

The winning squares, reading the home digit first, were 0 and 3 after the first quarter, 0 and 9 at halftime, 0 and 2 after the third quarter, and 3 and 9 on the final score. The board above is that exact game run as a $10 board on Play Squares, and if you want the whole night walked through period by period with the money attached, our worked football squares example follows this same game from the first claimed square to the last prize.

Look up this game's box score anywhere and you'll see Seattle's row as 3, 6, 3 and 17, which are the points the Seahawks scored inside each quarter rather than their running total. Squares never pay on those numbers. Seattle's halftime digit was 9, because 3 plus 6 is 9, not the 6 sitting in the second column, and more than one party has paid the wrong person at halftime by reading the box score straight across instead of adding it up as they go.

Take the running score at the end of the period, keep only the last digit of each team's total, then find the home team's digit along the top of the board and the away team's digit down the side, and the square where they meet wins. A quarter that ends 17 to 10 pays the square where the home team's 7 crosses the away team's 0, exactly as the board below shows.

In a game played at a neutral stadium, “home” simply means the team the NFL designates, and it alternates by conference: the NFC champion is the designated home team in odd-numbered Super Bowls and the AFC champion in even-numbered ones, which is why New England, the AFC side, was home in Super Bowl LX. Super Bowl LXI is odd-numbered, so the NFC team will be listed as home in February 2027.

It matters because swapping the axes moves every prize to a different square. Across Super Bowl history, 0 for the home team and 3 for the away team has won 15 times, while 3 for the home team and 0 for the away team has won only 8, so a host who quietly flips the teams after the digits are drawn has changed who holds a winning square. Write the team for each axis on the board before anything gets randomized, and nobody can argue about it later.

Every table on this page reads scores the same way a board does, home team first. If you prefer to see them the way a broadcast shows them, winner first, just flip each pair, but keep the board's orientation in mind when you read off a winner.

The table below lists the running score at the end of the first quarter, halftime, the end of the third quarter and the final for all 60 Super Bowls, newest first, with the designated home team listed first in every score and the winning square in blue underneath. The two games that went to overtime also show the score at the end of regulation, since some boards pay their last prize on that instead.

A few patterns jump out once the whole history sits in one place. No Super Bowl has ever been scoreless at halftime, yet ten were still 0-0 after the first quarter, the most recent being Super Bowl LVIII in 2024, and first quarters in general are slow: 15 of the 60 paid the 0 against 0 square, a quarter of all first-quarter prizes. The game opens cautiously and then loosens up, which you can see in how quickly the winning squares spread out, from just 17 different squares that have ever won a first quarter to 45 different squares across the 60 final scores.

Repeat winners are far more common than most people expect, too. In 27 of the 60 games at least one square won more than one prize, and in two of them the same square won three times: Super Bowl V paid 3 for the home team and 6 for the away team at halftime, after the third quarter and on the final, and Super Bowl XIX did the same for 8 against 6. If your board hasn't decided what happens when a square wins twice, our Super Bowl squares rules cover it, and the short version is that most boards just let it happen and pay it again.

The square with 0 for the home team and 0 for the away team has won more Super Bowl prizes than any other, 20 of the 240 scoring periods played, followed by 0 for the home team against 3 for the away team with 15 wins, then 7 against 0 and 3 against 7 with 11 each, and 0 against 7 with 10. The grid below counts every win for every square, laid out exactly like a board, so you can find any pairing in a second.

The reason is the way football scores. A touchdown with the extra point is worth 7 and a field goal 3, so totals like 3, 7, 10, 14, 17, 20 and 24 come up constantly, and those end in 3, 7, 0 and 4. Count every team score at every period and the digit 0 turns up 131 times out of 480, more than a quarter of the time, with 7 at 87 and 3 at 77. At the other end, 5 has turned up just 12 times, 2 has turned up 15 times and 8 has turned up 17 times, because reaching them usually takes a safety, a two-point conversion or a missed kick landing at exactly the right moment.

Timing changes the picture a lot. That 0 against 0 square won 15 of its 20 prizes at the end of the first quarter, 3 at halftime, 2 after the third quarter and has never won a final score, because by the end of a game both teams landing on a round ten is rare. Final scores spread out the most of any period, and no single square has won more than three of them: 4 for the home team against 7 for the away team, 0 against 7, and 1 against 4 share that record.

Keep the scale in mind before reading too much into any of this. Sixty games is a small sample, and even the most successful square in Super Bowl history has lost more than nine prizes out of every ten. If you want the same analysis across a much bigger pool of games, our football squares win rates for every NFL square cover every regular-season and playoff game from 2021 through 2025, by scoring period.

Thirty-three of the 100 squares on a board have never won a single Super Bowl prize when you count the home and away digits separately, and if you ignore which team is which, eleven pairings have never come up at all: 1-1, 1-2, 2-3, 2-6, 3-5, 4-5, 5-5, 5-6, 7-8, 8-8 and 9-9. That list matches the one PrintYourBrackets publishes, which is a useful cross-check that the scores underneath it are right.

Two of those eleven only just made the list. Super Bowl LI finished regulation tied 28-28 and Super Bowl LVIII tied 19-19, so a board that paid its last prize at the end of regulation would have paid 8 against 8 in 2017 and 9 against 9 in 2024. Because both games went on to be decided in overtime, the final score moved past them, and on the far more common rule of paying the true final score, neither square has ever collected.

None of this makes those squares dead. A 5 against 5 square needs something like a 15-15 or 25-5 score at the end of a quarter, which is unusual but perfectly possible in any given February, and every square on a freshly randomized board starts with the same chance as every other. What the history does tell you is why a room groans when someone draws 5 against 5, and why the same person cheers loudest when a late safety makes their square come alive.

Overtime doesn't add a fifth prize on a standard board, it changes which square takes the last one, and that has happened twice. In Super Bowl LI on February 5, 2017, Atlanta was the designated home team and the game was tied 28-28 at the end of regulation before New England won 34-28, which moved the last prize from 8 against 8 to 8 for the home team and 4 for the away team.

Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024 did the same thing with Kansas City as the home team. It was 19-19 at the end of regulation, a 9 against 9 square, and Kansas City won 25-22 in overtime, which paid 5 for the home team and 2 for the away team instead. Two games out of sixty isn't many, but it's two of the last ten, so an overtime Super Bowl is no longer the kind of thing a host can assume won't happen at their party.

Either rule is fine as long as it's decided before the digits are drawn. We recommend paying the last prize on the true final score, overtime included, because that's the score everyone remembers and the one every news story prints the next morning, but paying at the end of regulation is a legitimate choice too. The only real mistake is leaving it unsaid until two people are holding different squares and both think they won.

No, and the reason is how a board works rather than anything about the data. Everyone claims their squares while the board is still blank, and the digits only get randomized once every square is taken, so at the moment you choose a square there is no 0 or 7 attached to it for history to favor.

Some boards let an early buyer or a top seller claim their squares first, which is a nice perk, but it only means choosing a position on an empty grid. The digits that position ends up with are drawn afterwards, so going first carries no edge at all, and that's exactly what keeps the game fair for the person who has never watched a down of football in their life.

Where the history earns its keep is in the decisions a host makes before the draw. Knowing that a square wins twice in almost half of all Super Bowls tells you to settle the repeat-winner question in advance, knowing that two of the last ten went to overtime tells you to settle the last-prize rule, and knowing how often a first quarter ends 0-0 is worth a sentence to the new player who is about to watch their square sit empty for fifteen minutes. If you're still deciding how to split the prizes across those four periods, our breakdown of Super Bowl squares payouts for every board size does the arithmetic.

Super Bowl LXI is on February 14, 2027 at SoFi Stadium, and on the night the Super Bowl quarter scores that matter to your party are the ones on your own board, not the ones in a table like this. The quickest way to stop anyone paying the wrong square is to let the board do the adding up, rather than asking a room of people to total a box score while the halftime show is on.

That's the job Play Squares was built for. It follows the game live, keeps the running score for every period rather than the points inside it, and highlights the square currently on track to win while the quarter is still being played, so every player can open the board on their own phone and see where they stand instead of texting the host to ask whether their square is still alive. When the quarter ends, the winning square is already marked on the board. Our Super Bowl squares page shows how a board comes together, and anyone who has never played before will get up to speed fast with our explainer on how Super Bowl squares work.