How to Play Football Squares

Football fans love the excitement and competition of the sport and live for all of the spirited action each time their favorite teams takes the field. However, sometimes these games need some added excitement with a friendly wager. Football squares are a great way to get everyone involved even if they have no rooting interest in a game.

Difficulty:

Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Get a sheet of paper and draw a large square on the paper. You can do it on poster board or a large sheet of paper to make it easier to write in the squares.

2. Write the numbers zero through nine both on the top of the square and down the left-hand side. Zero and zero are both written in the top left-hand corner of the square, with the proceding numbers written to the right accross the top and down the left-hand side until you stop at nine.

3. Mark the name of one team on the top of the square and the name of the other football team on the left hand side of the square.

4. Draw grid lines between each number both vertically and horizontally. Each pair of numbers have their individual square. There should be one hundred squares in total.

5. Establish a price for each square and the overall prize rules for the entire game. For example, you can charge five dollars for each square, giving you five hundred dollars for prize money. Then you should determine what the payout is going to be. For instance, you could award a hundred dollar prize for each quarter winner and two hundred for the final score winner. Conversely, to make it easier you could just award the entire five hundred for the final score.

6. Ask friends, family and co-workers if they want to buy a square. Some squares are more likely to win as football's most common scores are in multiples of seven and three. You can let the people choose the squares or you can assign the squares randomly to the players.

7. Total up the money you received for the squares and announce to players the rules and prizes of the football square contest.

8. Award the money based on the last digit of the score for each team playing in the football game. If the score of the game is 14-7 then the 4/7 square is the winner. Remember to make note of which number is for which team.