How to Make a Super Bowl Pool Grid

The Super Bowl is now less than two weeks away. This means it is time for Super Bowl pools using grids or squares to start circulating the office. Here is how to make your own Super Bowl Pool grid. Included in these instructions are how to make the popular standard Super Bowl Pool Grid.

The Standard Super Bowl Pool Grid

The first thing you will need is either a piece of grid paper with large squares or one you create yourself. If you are creating it your self you will want the grid to have eleven rows and eleven columns, with another space in each square for someone to put their name. Highlight the top row and the first column as these will be used later to enter numbers in and will not be for sale, that will leave you with a ten by ten grid. After you create the ten by ten grid, you will want to put the names of the Super Bowl teams on the outer edges. One will go just above the top row of the grid, and one will go just to the left of the first column of the grid. This year the teams are the New England Patriots and the New York Giants.

After creating the grid and labeling the teams on it, you will need to get your grid filled out with people's names. Determine how much you want your total pool money to be and divide it by 100 as there are one hundred squares. The common office pool generally sells squares for $1, $5, or $10 each. There are some higher stakes pools I have heard of with boxes selling for up to $100. These though usually need to be created at the beginning of the season to get enough people to purchase boxes.

Once you have your grid completely purchased, you will draw numbers from zero to nine randomly for each of the highlighted boxes. Use one set of numbers for the horizontal row, and another set for the vertical. After these numbers are drawn, make photo copies of the pool sheet for everyone in the pool.

Finally, you need to determine your prize structure. Many Super Bowl pools using grids like this divide the pool evenly for each quarter. Others will have the second and quarters each worth 30% of the pot each and the first and third quarters worth just 20% of the pot each.

To determine quarterly winners, at the end of each quarter look at the last number for each team in the score. Match that up on your grid. You will have one and only one winner for that quarter. This person wins the predetermined amount for your Super Bowl pool grid for that quarter. It is possible for one square on the grid to win multiple quarters.