Unique Super Bowl Squares Pool

[Just Jack]

On 2/7/2025 at 3:13 PM, Buffalo03 said:

Nobody will be saying "what happened to alphadawg7" on Monday, will they?

 

 

Alpha did pay up.  Was anyone else's win paid in Pesos? 

[WotAGuy]

1 hour ago, Just Jack said:

 

Alpha did pay up.  Was anyone else's win paid in Pesos? 

I got Canadian dollars.  He said they will be worth a lot more once Canada becomes the 51st state. I’m sitting on $$$$!!!

[Alphadawg7]

21 hours ago, Tuco said:

Yup. Lots of people around my area do $100 a minute but I have to be different, LOL. But yeah 0-0 is usually the desired draw. Unless there's a safety on the first play like a few years ago ha ha. But it can get interesting and the numbers obviously change the higher the scoring gets. So it's not always just the 0s and 7s and 3s that win. Last year the final 2 minutes or so were won with the dreaded 9-9.

 

Been doing it for a number of years now. My smallest winner ever was $53. But hey, at least he got his money back, LOL. This year, with the touching squares added in I had 13 winners ranging from $110 to $1,243.  

 

Never heard of this style, interested in how it works.  Can you explain it?  

[Alphadawg7]

4 hours ago, Just Jack said:

 

Alpha did pay up.  Was anyone else's win paid in Pesos? 

No only you, everyone else was paid in Hawk Tuah crypto coins 

[Tuco]

22 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

Never heard of this style, interested in how it works.  Can you explain it?  

 

Well a lot of people just do it $60 a square then pay $100 every minute of the game (regulation only of course). So naturally when the numbers are drawn you want to have 0-0. But 7-0 or 3 - 0 is also good of course as the first score usually makes it one of those combos too. For the most part in order to avoid any gray areas its simply stated the $100 goes to whomever has the score every time the clock reads XX:00. So the game starts at 15:00. When it hits 14:00, if the score is still 0 -0 that person wins $100. Same thing when it hits 13:00. So when team A kicks a field goal at, say the 12:47 mark, the next payout would be at 12:00 and the team with the corresponding 3-0 wins $100 and so on throughout the game. Sometimes in lower scoring games a few people really clean up. Other times, like last year 0 - 0 really cleaned up. But eventually numbers like 6 - 6, 9 - 6 and even 9-9 got into the action.

 

Anyway, that's a popular board style where I live. The one I run I do differently. I get $50 a square for a total of $5,000. Then it pays $1 for every second the person has the score. But that only accounts for $3,600. So it also pays $150 for each of the touching squares (N, S, E, W) at the half and at the end of regulation. That equals another $1,200 for a total of $4,800. Then I give a $200 bonus to whomever has the score at the end of regulation. That's for scenarios like last year where a FG was kicked with :03 left. So instead of the person with 9 - 9 only winning $3 dollars they won $203.

 

This year, because of the touching square prizes, I wound up with 14 different winners (actually 13 but only because one guy won with two different squares). The smallest prize was $110 for the guy who had 6 - 7 for 1:50. The person with 0 - 0 won $620.  0 - 7 won $1,249. 0 - 4 won $803. One guy had a halftime touching square plus 6 - 4 so his total was $493. Also the guy with 4 - 0 would have only won $66 but he also added $150 for a touching square. Six people won $150 for their touching squares. The guy with 2 - 0 at the end was the same as the guy who had 0 - 4 so he added $308 to his $803. One other guy won $307 with 6 - 0.

 

It sounds like a lot of work but if you're good at math like I am it's not that hard to figure it all out. The first payout was 15:00 to 6:15 is 8:45 at 0 - 0. In my head that's 8X60=480 plus 45 = $525. 

 

To make it easier I made a chart that I use every year on Monday morning. Of course I write in the names not just winner number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alphadawg7]

2 hours ago, Tuco said:

 

Well a lot of people just do it $60 a square then pay $100 every minute of the game (regulation only of course). So naturally when the numbers are drawn you want to have 0-0. But 7-0 or 3 - 0 is also good of course as the first score usually makes it one of those combos too. For the most part in order to avoid any gray areas its simply stated the $100 goes to whomever has the score every time the clock reads XX:00. So the game starts at 15:00. When it hits 14:00, if the score is still 0 -0 that person wins $100. Same thing when it hits 13:00. So when team A kicks a field goal at, say the 12:47 mark, the next payout would be at 12:00 and the team with the corresponding 3-0 wins $100 and so on throughout the game. Sometimes in lower scoring games a few people really clean up. Other times, like last year 0 - 0 really cleaned up. But eventually numbers like 6 - 6, 9 - 6 and even 9-9 got into the action.

 

Anyway, that's a popular board style where I live. The one I run I do differently. I get $50 a square for a total of $5,000. Then it pays $1 for every second the person has the score. But that only accounts for $3,600. So it also pays $150 for each of the touching squares (N, S, E, W) at the half and at the end of regulation. That equals another $1,200 for a total of $4,800. Then I give a $200 bonus to whomever has the score at the end of regulation. That's for scenarios like last year where a FG was kicked with :03 left. So instead of the person with 9 - 9 only winning $3 dollars they won $203.

 

This year, because of the touching square prizes, I wound up with 14 different winners (actually 13 but only because one guy won with two different squares). The smallest prize was $110 for the guy who had 6 - 7 for 1:50. The person with 0 - 0 won $620.  0 - 7 won $1,249. 0 - 4 won $803. One guy had a halftime touching square plus 6 - 4 so his total was $493. Also the guy with 4 - 0 would have only won $66 but he also added $150 for a touching square. Six people won $150 for their touching squares. The guy with 2 - 0 at the end was the same as the guy who had 0 - 4 so he added $308 to his $803. One other guy won $307 with 6 - 0.

 

It sounds like a lot of work but if you're good at math like I am it's not that hard to figure it all out. The first payout was 15:00 to 6:15 is 8:45 at 0 - 0. In my head that's 8X60=480 plus 45 = $525. 

 

To make it easier I made a chart that I use every year on Monday morning. Of course I write in the names not just winner number.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks bud, never heard this style.  Sounds like a lot of work to track, but it’s interesting.  Keep me in mind next year, I’d try it out