Anyone play Super Bowl squares?

[Just Jack]

I was in one, $20 buy in, for a fundraiser so only half would be paid out in prizes.  Got 9-9, so at the end of the 4th, would have got me $400 but they went by final score, not the end of the quarter.  Happens to me a lot.  I’ll have a win, only for a team to score right before the end of a quarter taking it away.  

[sunshynman]

Any squares I have ever played are payouts at end of 1st, half, end of 3rd, end of game. I won $500 last night for end of game! And I thought 5-2 were crap numbers.

[mannc]

1 minute ago, sunshynman said:

Any squares I have ever played are payouts at end of 1st, half, end of 3rd, end of game. I won $500 last night for end of game! And I thought 5-2 were crap numbers.

Same

[julian]

1 minute ago, sunshynman said:

Any squares I have ever played are payouts at end of 1st, half, end of 3rd, end of game. I won $500 last night for end of game! And I thought 5-2 were crap numbers.

They used to be, then the NFL decided going for 2 is all the rage so the 2,5 have made a comeback 

[CapeBreton]

The squares are a great way to get a bunch of people involved and you don’t have to be watching the game together. I find them kind of boring though, so I made Super Bowl bingo cards this year and it was a lot more fun. You can only participate if you’re at the party though. 

[SinceThe70s]

2 hours ago, Just Jack said:

I was in one, $20 buy in, for a fundraiser so only half would be paid out in prizes.  Got 9-9, so at the end of the 4th, would have got me $400 but they went by final score, not the end of the quarter.  Happens to me a lot.  I’ll have a win, only for a team to score right before the end of a quarter taking it away.  

 

That stinks....I ran a box pool years ago and I split the final payout between 4th quarter and final score. I don't remember the numbers but I made sure that the final still paid the most. 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

We had an office girl run an annual pool years ago at a previous employer's.  'Betty Mac' charged $10 a square, and by the time she finished off paying for all the possible combinations (corner touch, side touch, etc.) you had to be pretty unlucky to not get something.

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Another coworker at a different company finally got pissed off at chasing people for their entry fee, that he took $100 off the top for handling and carrying charges.  A few groused, but Tony was a good guy, and the rest of us just told the whiners to find a pool better suited to their needs.

[BBFL]

3 hours ago, sunshynman said:

Any squares I have ever played are payouts at end of 1st, half, end of 3rd, end of game. I won $500 last night for end of game! And I thought 5-2 were crap numbers.

Yeah man, that was a foreign concept when I first moved to this country but both companies I’ve worked for played it this way… I thought that was the consensus? 
 

Of the total buy-in pot; Final score was 40%. Half time 30% and quarters 1 & 3 were 15%. 
 

My current workplace does 25% for each quarter as it’s only a pool of no more than 10 guys @ a $750 buy in with 2 squares each containing multiple lines. 
 

The first one, that steel mill was a pool of 100 guys @ $100 buy in. 

[That's No Moon]

I won $100 in my squares this year. Had 0-0. Could have won two more.

[BBFL]

3 minutes ago, That's No Moon said:

I won $100 in my squares this year. Had 0-0. Could have won two more.

I missed $1,875 due to SF kicking a FG 12 seconds into the 2nd… Had 0-3 on the first quarter for yesterday. 
 

🥺
 

 

Edited February 12, 2024 by BBFL

[H2o]

One of the people who work for me runs a block pool every year for the SB. The final score payout is $6,500. The UPS drivers run one that the final score payout is around $14,000. I never get in them. I'm not into tossing away money like that. My two teenagers do that enough for me. 

[stevestojan]

I had 5 and 2. But the wrong way. Payout for final was $10k. But reverse final was $500 so I’ll take it! 

[Andrew Son]

I was so close to a big payout.  All I needed was a KC FG to win in OT.  The 3rd and 6 incompletion on SF's first OT series I thought would have nearly sealed it.  They would punt and KC would have no need for a TD.  But...  Out came a flag on McDuffie to extent the drive...

[PonyBoy]

 

Got in on a $20 square pool. 

My #'s were 2 & 2 🙄

There went $20 out the window. 

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

20 minutes ago, PonyBoy said:

 

Got in on a $20 square pool. 

My #'s were 2 & 2 🙄

There went $20 out the window. 

 

 

Where did you get the picture of HOUSE as a child? 🤔

[LabattBlue]

I was in 7 pools totaling $300, ranging from $2 to $100 per square.  All types of different formats/payouts. 
 

Winnings…. ZERO NADA ZIP NOTHING. 

 

😂

[Chandler#81]

I usually try, but couldn’t find an opportunity this week. A friend won $200 while bitchin’ that one of her numbers was 5..🤣🤦‍♂️

[Buffaloflash]

A firefighter friend of ours, needed the 49'ers to win by 3 1/2 for $120,000. So my $220 football squares lost seemed kind of insignificant.

I won the final last year for 3 grand, so I'm still playing with house money.

[BCAS Baritone]

I had SF 2 and KC 9.  Just needed SF to get the stop in OT.  Now another reason to hate the Chiefs

[Prospector]

50 minutes ago, Buffaloflash said:

A firefighter friend of ours, needed the 49'ers to win by 3 1/2 for $120,000. So my $220 football squares lost seemed kind of insignificant.

I won the final last year for 3 grand, so I'm still playing with house money.

Seems like a type of bet I may try to hedge just a little