Super Bowl squares is a 10-by-10 grid: each square pairs one digit for each team, the digits are drawn after the squares are sold, and a square wins when the last digit of each team’s score matches it at the end of a quarter. The best squares are the ones built on 0, 7 and 3: across all 285 NFL games of the 2025 season, the two squares pairing 0 and 7 hit at 12.5% of quarter marks between them, where any two squares would average 2%.
How Super Bowl squares work
The grid has 100 squares. One team goes across the top and the other down the side, and players buy squares, or have their names written in, before any numbers are known. Once the grid is full, the digits 0 to 9 are drawn at random for each row and each column, so every square ends up with one number for each team.
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At the end of each quarter, take the last digit of each team’s score and find the square where they meet. That square wins that quarter’s share of the pot. A common setup pays at the end of the first quarter, the half, the third quarter and the final, and some pools give the final a bigger share.
Super Bowl LX is a worked example. Seattle beat New England 29-13 on February 8, 2026. The quarter-mark scores were 3-0, 9-0 and 12-0, then 29-13 at the end. The winning squares, Seattle first, were 3-0, 9-0, 2-0 and 9-3.
Which Super Bowl squares numbers win most often
We counted the last digits at all four quarter marks in every 2025 NFL game, regular season and playoffs, from ESPN’s line scores: 285 games and 1,140 quarter marks.
| Digits (either team) | Hits | Share of quarter marks |
|---|---|---|
| 0 and 7 | 143 | 12.5% |
| 0 and 3 | 127 | 11.1% |
| 3 and 7 | 79 | 6.9% |
| 0 and 0 | 68 | 6.0% |
| 4 and 7 | 57 | 5.0% |
| 0 and 4 | 55 | 4.8% |
| 0 and 6 | 48 | 4.2% |
| 7 and 7 | 48 | 4.2% |
Each pair except 0-0 and 7-7 is two squares on the grid, one for each team order, so a single 0-7 square hit at roughly half that rate, around 6%, where an average square hits 1%. By team score, a 0 came up 25.0% of the time, a 7 21.0% and a 3 16.7%. A 5 came up 1.6% of the time and a 2 just 2.1%.
The final score alone spreads out more. The most common final pairs were 0 and 7 (8.1% of games), 4 and 7 (6.7%) and 0 and 3 (5.6%).
Types of Super Bowl squares pools
- Standard pool: 100 squares, numbers drawn once, a payout at each quarter.
- Re-draw each quarter: new numbers for every quarter, so a bad draw in the first quarter does not ruin the whole game.
- Reverse payout: the square with the digits flipped also wins a smaller share.
- Every score: a payout each time the score changes, which spreads the pot over many more squares.
The format changes what a square is worth. In Super Bowl LX, a standard pool paid four squares, three of them with a 0 for New England, while an every-score pool would also have paid on each of the other scores along the way.
Strategy for Super Bowl squares
The numbers are drawn at random, so in a standard pool there is no strategy for picking a square; there is only the luck of the draw. What you can control is the pool you join. If squares can be bought or traded after the draw, one holding 0, 7 or 3 for both teams wins far more often than one holding 2, 5 or 8, the three rarest digits in 2025.
Read the payout rules before you buy. A pool that pays only the final makes every square more volatile than one that pays all four quarters, and a pool that re-draws each quarter gives every entry four chances at a good number.
Super Bowl LXI is on February 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. For the game itself, see our Super Bowl odds, our NFL prop betting guide for the prop menu, and the NFL predictions hub for this week’s games. The membership has a free trial.