Set it up
Pick the game, set your price per square, and add your branding.
Share one link
Supporters claim squares from their phone and pay you directly.
Numbers & winners
Numbers reveal at lock; enter scores and winners light up automatically.
Features, options & plans
Tune every detail to fit your fundraiser — and see exactly what’s on each plan.
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Pick your game — we bring the teams
On Varsity & up, choose your matchup from our synced library — team names, logos, and start times come pre-loaded. Leagues we integrate:
More leagues added regularly. On any plan you can always type in team names yourself.
How a Classic Squares works
Football squares (a.k.a. Super Bowl squares) is the simplest, most beloved party pool there is: a 10×10 grid, random numbers, and a winner every quarter. Here’s exactly how the game works, how winners are decided, common payout splits, and how to run one online.
What are football squares?
A football squares pool is a 10×10 grid — 100 squares. Each row gets a digit 0–9 for one team, and each column a digit 0–9 for the other. Players claim squares before kickoff; then at the end of each scoring period you take the last digit of each team’s score and find where they meet on the grid. That square wins.
Once the numbers are drawn it’s pure luck — which is exactly why it’s perfect for a big-game party, an office, or a booster-club fundraiser. Anyone can win, no football knowledge required.
How a winning square is decided
Take the last digit of each team’s score at the end of a period and find the matching row and column:
Most pools pay out at the end of the 1st quarter, halftime, the 3rd quarter and on the final — but you choose how many periods pay and how much each is worth.
How the numbers are assigned (and why it’s fair)
The 0–9 digits for each row and column aren’t known while people are buying — they’re hidden until the grid locks, then drawn at random. That’s what keeps it fair: nobody can grab a “good” number on purpose. On ChooseASquare the draw happens automatically at lock (you set the timing), or you can draw on demand.
Common payout structures
There’s no single right way to split the pot — pick what fits your group:
- Even quarters: 25% at the end of each quarter.
- Bigger finish: 15% Q1 · 20% halftime · 15% Q3 · 50% final — rewards the final score most.
- Halftime & final only: a simpler two-payout pool.
- Reverse-score bonus: also pay the square with the two digits swapped — twice the winners.
Run your own football squares pool
Set it up in minutes, share one link, and let numbers and winners run themselves.
Online vs. a paper grid
A printed grid means chasing cash, hand-drawing numbers, and doing math after every quarter. Online, players claim squares from their phone, numbers draw themselves, winners light up as you enter scores, and everyone watches the live board on one shared link — no spreadsheet, no clipboard.
Is there any strategy?
Before the draw, every square is equally random, so claim whatever you like. Afterward, some digits do hit more often in football — 0 and 7 are the strongest (field goals and touchdowns), while 2 and 5 are the weakest — but since you can’t choose your number, the only real “strategy” is buying more squares to improve your odds.
Running it the easy way
ChooseASquare runs a single-game grid free on the Kickoff plan. For a team’s whole season or a playoff run, use Series & Playoff Squares — one square good for every game, with the same numbers all season or fresh numbers each game. Want winners picked weekly instead of by score? See Pick’Em. To turn any squares pool into a fundraiser, add the Fundraising module.
Classic Squares, answered
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