If you’re attending or hosting a Super Bowl LIX party for the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Philadelphia Eagles game, you might want to create your own Super Bowl squares game, or at least understand how they work so you can play along.
Whether you’re hardcore or casual, fans can wager on just about anything in the Big Game. If prop bets or the halftime performance isn’t your thing, you can get in on the action with Super Bowl squares.
Not familiar with Super Bowl squares? Read below for rules and betting odds to see how it works. Hosting your own Super Bowl Squares game? Just save the image above and print copies for your guests!
Super Bowl squares rules
- Full Super Bowl Markets
- Super Bowl 59 Injury Report
- Kansas City Chiefs Team Stats
- Philadelphia Eagles Team Stats
The square consists of 10 vertical columns and 10 horizontal rows, both numbered from zero to nine. One Super Bowl team — Chiefs or Eagles — is assigned the columns and the other gets the rows.
Each of the 100 squares inside is then purchased individually with each square priced equally.
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Members of your Super Bowl party can then buy as many squares as they’d like in each quarter. The more squares that are bought, the greater the payout probabilities for the winner.
Once every box of the pool has been sold, the numbers assigned to each row and column are selected at random.
After every quarter, the person whose square corresponds with the intersection of the second digit of each team’s score wins a prize.
For example, a 14–7 score at the end of the first quarter pays out the owner of the square at row 4, column 7.
NorthStar Bets SB squares betting odds
That’s the traditional way of playing. But maybe you’re not at a Super Bowl party or you’d like to jazz it up.
At NorthStar Bets, you can get in on the action by placing individual bets on each quarter’s outcome.
Full SB squares betting markets
Let’s use the first quarter “0-0” as an example.
- That would cover a 0-0 tie, 10-10 tie, 20-10 score, 10-0, score, etc. As long as both team’s score ends with a zero when the clock strikes zero, the bet would cash.
- At +300, “0-0” is deemed the most likely outcome. Still, that carries a 25.0% implied probability, hence the generous odds.
As more time in the game elapses, there are more opportunities for crooked numbers to get on the scoreboard.
For example, at the end of the third quarter, both “0-7 Philadelphia” and “7-0 Kansas City” hold +1,500 odds. These are some examples of scores which would cash the latter:
- Kansas City 17-20 Philadelphia
- Kansas City 27-10 Philadelphia
- Kansas City 7-30 Philadelphia
It’s an interesting exercise because you can win your wager with either team getting blown out. That said, Super Bowl squares is largely a game of chance but numbers such as 0, 3 and 7 have higher hit rates.
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