Squares School
Everything you need to know about running an effective squares pool.
Guides
- The Ultimate Guide to Hosting a Football Squares Pool
Learn everything you need to know about football squares, including rules, payouts, number assignment, odds, strategy, and how to host a pool online.
- How to Run a Squares Pool for the NBA Playoffs
Unlike the Super Bowl, the NBA Finals can end in 4 games or go all 7. That single fact changes everything about how you structure your pool.
- How to Run a March Madness Squares Fundraiser
Run a March Madness squares fundraiser that actually pays out fairly. Real pricing, a six-round payout split, and money collection tips.
- How Many Squares Are in a Football Pool?
It's not always 100. Real hosts also run 25, 10, and 4-square grids, and here's which size fits your group.
- How to Run a Super Bowl Squares Fundraiser
Run a Super Bowl squares fundraiser that pays out fairly and stays a game, not gambling. Real pricing data and a quarter-by-quarter payout example inside.
- Football Squares Rules: Every Rule That Decides a Winner
The complete rules reference for any football game: scoring periods, overtime and ties, the reverse score rule, repeat winners, grid size, and the squares nobody buys.
- How Do Super Bowl Squares Work?
The full mechanics from an empty grid to a paid winner, including real cost data and which squares actually win most across 1,424 NFL games.
- How Do Baseball Squares Work?
Baseball squares run on R+H+E, not just the score, and the board doesn't have to wait for the postseason. Here's the full mechanics for a single game or an entire season.
- How to Play Football Squares
Written for the player, not the host: how to claim a square, read the board mid-game, and which digits actually win most across five seasons of NFL scores.
- World Series Squares: How to Run One Board Across a Best-of-Seven
One board covers the whole series, and the payout structure here pays out every dollar whether the World Series ends in four games or seven.
- Football Squares Payouts: How to Split the Prize Pool
What a board pays at every price per square, how forward and backward prizes come out of the same prize pool, and what to do when the board never sells out.
- Super Bowl Squares Rules: Every Call You Make Before the Draw
The rulings a Super Bowl host has to settle before the numbers are drawn, including what overtime does to the last prize, worked through on the one Super Bowl that went to overtime.
- Super Bowl Block Pool: What a Block Is and How One Wins
Block, box and square are three names for the same game, so here is the whole thing in the words your group uses, from claiming a block to the ones nobody buys.