Recoup Your Party Costs: Play Super Bowl Squares!

So you are hosting or going to a Super Bowl party, you have to bring or provide some snacks and/or frosty liquid refreshments. So you are already in the hole heading to the party, so why not pull yourself out of the hole, though risk putting yourself further into the hole by jotting down your name on a few Super Bowl squares?

Chances are good that the party you will be attending this Sunday will have a sheet circulating with 100 squares of equal price. You will select your square and give the required entry fee times the amount of squares you pick and fork over the funds to the person in charge.

You may be surprised to know that there is some ways to get an upperhand to recover your costs from the cheesy corn chips, chicken wings and beer. The biggest key right of the bat is to know the rules.

Squares are something that has spread throughout different parties over the years and the rules have been skewed in the process or outright changed. Some pay out every quarter, some just after the first half and the completion of the game or some has just a winner-take-all format, with the final score deciding the one and only winner.

If you are unfamiliar with squares, they are basically a grid of 100 spots with one team on the top and the other team on the left. Numbers are drawn randomly, and this is the most important item you will need to know as we will discuss below, and jotted down for each team’s grid.

Say the Colts lead the Saints 7-3 after the first quarter, the person who has “7” for Indianapolis and “3” for New Orleans wins, provided your squares are doing four winners.

Some squares draw numbers before people pick while others draw numbers after people have picked. If you are lucky enough to get the pool in which the numbers are already drawn and you have first dibs at your squares, rejoice! You have a good chance at picking some good squares.

When you have a 7 or a 0, which is usually the most frequent score in a football game. Whether it be 7-0, 10-7, 17-10, etc., because touchdowns are mostly worth six points and an easy kick for seven.

You may think that the number 1 is the most infrequent number in football scores since the number “1” is the only number you could never hit in football, but do not forget three touchdowns equals 21 points, four touchdowns and field goal equals 31 points. So what you want to stay away from is the dreaded 2’s, which are the most uncommon numbers in a football game.

If you search the web, there are plenty of probability charts to which numbers are drawn to the percentages.

For the pools that do not pick numbers, while it is mostly luck of the draw, however try to get your hands on the sheet early in its circulation in these cases as well. This way you will avoid having to pick squares which are in the same row and column.

Spreading your choices out, will give you a better shot at winning, if the payout is by quarter.

So while there may not be much you can do to help your chances of winning at squares, there is a little bit of preparation you can do, but the one rule of squares that you just can not do no matter what, is get that orangey-cheese from the cheese curls on the sheet.

That my friend, is a party foul.

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