Super Bowl Squares Template

How do you fill in this Super Bowl squares template?

Type the two team names, the price per square and the prize amounts into the boxes above, print the sheet before anyone arrives, and let players write their own names into the empty cells. The five steps below are the whole job from an empty sheet to paying the winners.

1. Fill in the form above and print the sheet, one copy per board.
2. Let each player write their own name into whichever empty squares they want.
3. Collect the money as squares get claimed, keeping one single record of who has paid.
4. Once every square is claimed and paid for, draw the digits and write one into each band cell.
5. At the end of each quarter, take the last digit of each team's score and mark the square where the two meet.

Nobody ever picks their own digits, which is what keeps the game fair. A player chooses a position on the grid, and the numbers that position ends up representing stay unknown until the draw. If you want the draw itself to feel witnessed rather than done quietly with a pen, the Super Bowl squares number generator runs it as a reveal everyone can watch, and you copy the two rows straight onto the printed sheet afterwards. For the full walkthrough of the format, including what each quarter pays, How Do Super Bowl Squares Work covers it end to end.

Should you print 100 squares or 25?

Print the 100-square board unless you specifically want to sell fewer squares, because it's the version almost every pool uses and the one your players will already recognize. The 25-square sheet pairs the digits two at a time along each band, so one square covers four different last-digit combinations rather than one, and that's the part worth saying out loud to anybody who hasn't seen it before.

A smaller group can still run the full 100-square sheet perfectly well, and all that changes is everyone claiming a few squares each instead of one. Online, Play Squares runs the standard 100-square board, so the printed 25-square option here is for hosts who want a shorter sheet on paper.

What happens if the board doesn't sell out?

The prizes you printed on the sheet still have to reach real people, so the honest options all keep the prize pool where you advertised it. Filling the empty squares yourself, or between a few players, at the price everyone else paid is the cleanest one, and once you've done that the rest of the question goes away.

When that isn't practical, roll an unclaimed prize into the next scoring period so the later prizes grow, and settle in advance what happens if it's the last prize that lands on an empty square, either splitting it across the squares that were actually played or drawing a square at random and paying whoever holds it. A predetermined rule that steps the prize along to another owned square works too, and its whole value is that it was written down before the game rather than argued about during it. Football Squares Payouts ranks every one of these options with worked examples. The move to avoid is quietly shrinking the prizes to match what sold, because the players who did turn up paid full price against the numbers on your sheet.

What if the game goes to overtime?

Overtime points count toward the final score, so the last prize gets decided by the score when the game actually finishes rather than by where things stood at the end of the fourth quarter. That's the default most hosts run, and the alternative of paying on the end of regulation is equally valid as long as you said so before kickoff.

Every printed board eventually meets one of these questions, so the note line on the sheet exists for exactly this. Write your overtime rule on it, along with anything else your group plays, such as the reverse score rule paying whoever holds the same digits the other way round, or what happens when one square wins twice in the same game. Letting a repeat winner simply win again is the simplest and fairest answer, and it's what most real pools do. Football Squares Rules works through ties, overtime and repeat winners in detail.

Are some squares better than others?

Some digit pairings do come up more often than others, and pooling every scoring period across 1,424 NFL games from 2021 through 2025, a 7 for the home team against a 0 for the away team landed 424 times, a win rate of 7.33 percent and more than any other pairing. That still means the single best square on the board loses far more often than it wins, so nothing on a squares sheet is ever a lock.

It also has no effect on how you run the pool, because the digits get drawn at random after the board fills and nobody chooses which ones they end up holding. The numbers are worth knowing mostly because somebody at the party always asks, and our football squares odds tool lets you look up any pairing by quarter, by final score and by overtime from that same five seasons of real games.

What does a printed sheet make harder on game day?

Paper can't tell anybody what's happening while the game is still being played, so every question about the board comes back to whoever is holding the pen. Hosts spend the second half answering the same three things on repeat, which are whether a square won, who took the first quarter, and which numbers somebody has again.

That's the one thing an online board genuinely does better. Play Squares tracks the score as the game goes and shows the pending winner, meaning whoever is on track to take the quarter if the score holds where it is right now, not just the settled winner once the quarter ends. Everyone watches the same board from their own phone, so the printed sheet stops being the only copy and the host stops being the lookup service. The Super Bowl squares page shows what that looks like on a real board, and printing this template today and moving online next year are both perfectly reasonable places to be.