How to play NFL Squares
NFL Football Squares is a fun and easy-to-play game that anyone can enjoy, regardless of their football knowledge.
Create Grids
Choose any game of the season and set up your NFL football grid. Whether it’s a regular season matchup, playoff game, or the Super Bowl, the format is easy to use.
Select Squares
Players claim squares on the grid until it’s filled. Once numbers are assigned across the top and side, every square represents a possible score combination for the game.
Track Winners
At the end of each quarter, winners are determined by the last digit of each team’s score. It’s a simple format that keeps everyone involved from start to finish.
NFL Squares Pool Examples
See the features that make football squares online easy for commissioners and fun for players.
Create Grids for Any Game
Create an NFL grid for any matchup on the schedule and run multiple football pool squares throughout the season. It is an easy way to host an online football squares pool for weekly games, playoffs, or the Super Bowl.
Customize Your Grid Settings
Adjust your football grid settings to match your pool’s preferred format. Commissioners can control grid sizes, scoring options, and other setup details so every NFL Squares pool runs the way they want.
Post Updates and Talk Trash
Every pool includes a private message board where members can post updates, talk trash, and keep the conversation going all season long. It gives your group one place to stay connected beyond just making picks.
Why run your NFL Squares pool online?
Gridiron Games automates the busywork so your pool can focus on filling the grid, following the action, and enjoying the game.
Manually tracking who claimed each square and keeping the football grid updated for everyone.
Players claim their own squares online and the grid updates automatically in real time.
Picking numbers by hand and dealing with complaints about whether the setup was fair.
Randomly generate numbers online in a fun, fair way so everyone trusts the grid.
Tracking scores manually, calculating winners by hand, and updating everyone after the game.
Winning squares update automatically after the game, making it easy to follow results.
Relying on group texts, email chains, and side conversations to keep everyone updated.
Use the built-in message board and commissioner tools to keep everyone informed.
Starting over from scratch every time you want to run another grid for a new matchup.
Create football grids for any game and keep your squares pool organized all season long.
Frequently Asked Questions
An NFL Squares pool is a football squares format built around a 10×10 football grid. Players claim squares before kickoff, then winners are determined by the last digit of each team’s score at the end of each quarter and the final score of the game. Football pool squares are especially popular for the Super Bowl, but they can be used for any NFL matchup.
The basic rules on football squares are simple. Players select squares on the grid before the game starts. After the grid is filled, numbers are assigned across the top and side. At the end of each quarter and the final score, the winning square is determined by matching the last digit of each team’s score to the corresponding row and column.
This is what makes NFL football squares online such a popular football grid game: the format is easy to understand, quick to run, and keeps everyone engaged throughout the game.
Yes. You can create an NFL football grid for any game on the weekly NFL schedule. That makes it easy to run online football squares for weekly games, playoff matchups, and the Super Bowl all from the same pool.
Commissioners can manually assign or randomly generate team numbers at any time. If numbers have not been assigned by the commissioner, the site will automatically generate them 5 minutes before kickoff of the game.
There are three scoring settings you can choose from:
- Game: One set of team numbers is used for all four quarters of the game.
- Half: One set of numbers is used for the first half, and a different set is used for the second half.
- Quarter: A different set of numbers is used for each quarter of the game.
Game is the most common setup for NFL squares, but Half and Quarter can add more variety if your group wants a different twist.
If your NFL football squares grid is not completely filled, the grid will still run as normal. It is important, however, to decide ahead of time how your group wants to handle a blank winning square and communicate that rule clearly to everyone. Some groups say no one wins, while others award the square to a nearby spot based on their own house rules.
For NFL Squares, the final winner is based on the score at the end of the game, whether that final score happens at the end of the 4th quarter or in overtime. Quarter winners are still based on the score at the end of Q1, Q2, Q3, and the final result.
We use a pay-as-you-go pricing model that allows pools to pay for only the grids they need. For NFL Squares pools, each grid is tied to a specific game, so you purchase a grid for each game you want to run. Once you pay for 10 grids, all additional grids after that are free within the same pool, up to the yearly limit. To estimate your cost, check out our pricing calculator.
Only the pool commissioner is responsible for paying the hosting fee. Once the commissioner has purchased grids, other players can participate in the pool for free without needing to pay any additional fees.