1. Online Super Bowl Pool Grid
2. Different Types Of Super Bowl Pools
3. Types Of Super Bowl Squares
4. Different Types Of Super Bowl Pools

It’s the beginning of a new year: people are still feeling post-holiday sluggishness, winding down from time with the family (good or bad), and getting back into the groove at work. While some of this is unavoidable, there are ways to ease into the work part – with fun!

• One of the longstanding traditions on Super Bowl Sunday is Super Bowl squares pools (sometimes known as “box pools”), in which fans purchase one of 100 boxes on a 10 x 10 matrix.
• Print NFL Super Bowl Boxes Template. Printable Football Square Board Box Pool. Free Super Bowl Sheets for your Office Pool or Super Bowl Party. Updated with the two team Logos Playing in the Super Bowl.
• Block Pools Friends & Family (FnF) 20 Points per Block 5 SCORE WINNERS (200 points per winner).

And why not use the Super Bowl, the most watched sporting event in the country, to get coworkers amped about getting back to work?

Online Super Bowl Pool Grid

The box pool or 100-square pool is king of the Super Bowl office pools and is one that many people have seen before. It’s simply a 10-square-by-10-square box, giving you a total of 100 squares.

The Super Bowl not only brings football fans together, but it also instigates some friendly competition with hardcore fans, casual fans, or people trying to bond with their fan friends. Take this opportunity to reignite office energy and get people excited to come back to work. Plus, you’ll be promoting office bonding and collaboration.

Find out how you can bring some of this excitement into the workplace with Super Bowl office pools, games, and other fun ideas.

Football Squares: the standard Super Bowl pool template

Similar to the March Madness Bracket (which we also have tips for in our March Madness Workplace Games & Office Pool Ideas post), Football Squares for the Super Bowl are one of the most commonly used office sports bracket systems around. While there are many versions, the most popular one is the 10×10 variation. It’s pretty simple:

• Start with a 10X10 grid, giving you 100 squares.
• Assign one of the teams to rows and one to the columns.
• Recruit workers to join the pool and “buy in” to a square.
• Randomly assign each row and column with a number (0-9).

Once you have every square accounted for, you’re already set up to have your own Super Bowl office pool. Winners are determined after each quarter of the game, and the last number in each team’s point total is used to decide the victor – if the score at the end of a quarter is 14-7, whoever “owns” box 4-7 (row 4, column 7) will win a portion of the pool. This is the collective pot of money that all participants put in to “own” a square.

Spice it up

Simply doing an office pool might not be enough to get employees engaged and involved as they pick up steam in the new year. There are ways to make the whole Super Bowl office pool a little more exciting:

• Throw a tailgating party – Immerse employees in the football experience with an office tailgating party. Lucky for you, we have some office tailgating tips on hand for that too.
• Super Bowl office party – After the tailgating, host an actual viewing of the game. You can provide food, drinks (if your company guidelines allow), and amplify the excitement as pool winners are revealed live, during the event.
• Games – Aside from the actual Super Bowl pool, there are other games to play. You can play drinking games based on events happening in the game (player injury, interception, certain types of commercials, etc.) or even have an inter-office football game to get into the spirit. Check out our football supplies if this piques your interest.
• Make the winners feel special – Aside from winning the money, create awards for winners to make the whole event a little more personalized. This is also an option if you don’t want to have gambling going on in your workplace.
• Create rules – Stray from the norm a bit by adding your own flair to the game. Allow partakers to trade squares as the game goes, create another way to determine the row/column number winner, or have those with squares near the winning squares win complimentary prizes.

Different Types Of Super Bowl Pools

Other Super Bowl pool games & templates

You might be thinking: there aren’t enough people in my office/workplace to fill out a 100 square grid. Fortunately, there are other options:

• 10 line – This is a simple one; each person is given 1 of 10 boxes and each box is assigned a number. Every quarter, add each team’s score and the final digit is the winning number. The 10 Line is ideal for smaller companies or groups.
• 25 grid – With this option, it’s a 5×5 grid that is assigned two numbers per team for each square – more chances to win!
• 50 grid – This is a 5×10 grid that assigns 2 numbers per row (team 1) and 1 per column (team 2).
• Score guessing– Each participant will guess the total number of points (combined) as well as the winning team’s score; the winner is whoever gets the closest guess.

And these are just a few! Templates for these versions can be found on the PrintYourBrackets Super Bowl page, but the options are endless. Now go ahead and create some camaraderie between coworkers and get the post-holiday cobwebs out!

How do you celebrate the Super Bowl in the workplace?

OK, so you want to get in on the Super Bowl squares fun, but don’t know how to run a pool? Don’t you worry. We got you covered.

Super Bowl squares is a game of chance where people can purchase squares on a grid, each of which are assigned two numbers. Those numbers correspond to the box’s given value in the X and Y (or horizontal and vertical) coordinates.

This sounds more complicated than it is.

How to set up the Super Bowl squares grid

Make a square. Then carve that square up into 10 rows and 10 columns. (If you want a bigger squares pool, you can go up to 100 x 100 for a grid, but if you’re running that serious and massive a pool I doubt you’ll need me to explain to you how to run it.)

Types Of Super Bowl Squares

There are different ways to play, but usually the x-axis applies to one team, and the y-axis applies to the other team.

Participants can then purchase squares on the board. People don’t know what number they will be assigned; they’re just purchasing the chance to own a square, and can purchase as many as you want to limit.

In a 10×10 grid, obviously enough, there are 100 squares available to purchase. You can sell squares for as much or as little as you like, and limit people on how many they can purchase if you see fit.

Once names are assigned in random squares, you randomly assign numbers 1-10 to both the rows and columns. So it will look like this:

The names should be filled in the boxes, and you’re ready to go.

How do you score in Super Bowl squares?

Most people carve up scoring by quarter, half, and then final score. The pot can be carved up however you want. A popular way of doing it is 50% of the pot for final score, 30% for halftime score, and then 10% for 1st and 3rd quarter score, but it’s totally up to you. Some people just do 25% of pot after each of the four quarters.

The way you find a winner is whoever’s square correctly matches to the ones digit of the score of each team. So if the score after the first quarter is 14-10 Patriots, the player who has square that coincides with the 4 in the Patriots column and the 0 in the Rams column will win that quarter.

Different Types Of Super Bowl Pools

Each quarter gives you a fresh chance to win.

What are the best squares to have in Super Bowl squares?

I’m going to lean on my colleagues at USA TODAY Sports to handle this one:

The Harvard Sports Analysis Collective wrote that the single best square to have is seven on the favorite’s axis (the Patriots are the favorites this year) and zero on the underdog’s, with the 0-0 square a close second. The Washington Post lists 0-0 as the best square to have, with the two combinations of seven and zero (7-0 or 0-7) right behind it. Three, four and one also aren’t bad numbers to have from an odds standpoint.

Is there any skill in Super Bowl squares?

Zero. None. Total game of chance. Still fun to do!