Super Bowl squares
The Super Bowl is the one night a year when everyone at the party cares about the score, and squares is the reason. Half the room does not know who is playing; all of the room knows they need a 7 and a 4. Here is how to run it so the board is a highlight instead of a chore.
Set up before the party
Create the board days ahead and send the link with the invite, so the grid is full before guests arrive. Set your price per square and payout split up front. For Super Bowl parties, a weighted final (20-20-20-40) fits the night, since the final score is the one everyone remembers.
Make the draw an event
Do the number draw at the party, right before kickoff, on the TV. It is thirty seconds of pure drama and it establishes that the board is fair because a hundred eyeballs watched it happen. Boxpick's slot-machine draw reveal was built for exactly this moment, one digit at a time with the room reacting to every flip.
Put the board on the TV
A squares board taped to the fridge gets visited; a board on the screen gets watched. Boxpick's TV party mode is built for screen mirroring: mirror your phone to the television and the full grid, the live score, and a glowing current winner fill the screen, so between commercials and halftime the board is part of the broadcast.
Keep the room in it
The magic of squares at a Super Bowl party is that a garbage-time field goal can flip the winning square. Winners lighting up automatically at each quarter keeps guests checking their digits all night without anyone doing scorekeeper duty.
How do Super Bowl squares work?
Super Bowl squares is a 10x10 grid played over the Super Bowl. Guests claim squares before the game, random digits are drawn for each team, and the square matching the last digit of each team's score wins at the end of each quarter.
When should you draw numbers for Super Bowl squares?
After the board is completely full and before kickoff. Drawing at the party in front of everyone is the most fun and the most fair, and it doubles as a pregame event.
What is a good payout structure for Super Bowl squares?
Equal quarters (25 percent each) is the classic. A popular alternative weights the final score, like 20-20-20-40, since the final is the number everyone remembers.
Can guests join Super Bowl squares without downloading an app?
With Boxpick, yes. Guests claim squares from a shared link in their browser, no download and no account, while the host runs the board from the app.
Make squares the best part of the party
Full board before kickoff, a draw the room watches, winners that light up on their own.
