Friends enjoying a football watch party beside a Squares board and prize table

BBQ & Watch Party

Full version

Stripe Connect card payments

Accept card payments directly into your Stripe account

The challenge: One of the biggest challenges in managing a Squares game is collecting payments and matching them to the right players.

How it helps: After the manager connects Stripe and enables card checkout, players can pay for squares in the app, with funds going directly to the manager’s connected Stripe account. Each card payment remains linked to the player and square in the ledger for clear follow-up, including refunds.

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Automatic score tracking, number draws, and winner identification handle the game-day work so managers can enjoy the game too.

Guided sample tour is playing.

Q1 sample score: Home 7 · Away 3

Each event has its own random number draw. Select a quarter again to see that its drawn numbers stay the same.

Fresh numbers for every quarter: Each quarter has its own random number draw, so a square is not stuck with the same unfavorable number combination for the entire game.

Select the highlighted winning square to view the sample winner and configured payout. Any manual interaction pauses the tour.

Home
Away
7
1
9
3
0
4
6
8
2
5
6
4
2
9
1
0
5
7
8
3
SR
MK
OH
DA
LM
NA
OH
EJ
JS
AK
NA
JS
NP
AO
FZ
KM
AP
MK
LM
EO
LW
DA
JS
SR
SP
GS
LW
AO
EJ
NA
AK
JS
AO
SR
YT
ZR
AS
KM
DA
IC
SR
FZ
AK
PI
AK
LM
AS
MK
MG
LM
JS
SP
AK
JS
MK
GS
LW
MN
LM
LM
JS
MN
LM
LW
PI
TN
LM
DA
AP
OH
MK
OH
PI
IC
ZR
SR
HB
JK
DA
JK
MG
FS
AK
PI
NA
NP
YT
PI
OH
SP
LM
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Start free—no account required. Choose an upcoming football or basketball game, share the player link, and let The Squares Game handle number draws, live scoring, and winners automatically.

No account required. Real scores, winners, and manager-managed payment and payout tracking. Coordinate collection and payouts directly, or upgrade for configured payment options and more automation.

Click here to download The Squares Game contactWhy: this helps manager login emails reach your inbox instead of junk or promotions.

Which winning events are included?

Your free grid uses the regulation scoring events for its game—such as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 for football, or the matching basketball periods.

How are the numbers assigned?

The app automatically draws a fresh set of numbers for each winning event, so no one is stuck with the same number combination for the whole game.

Do managers or players need an account?

No. Managers can create a free grid and players can join without an account. An email is optional when someone wants to find their grid or use the same player identity across devices.

How are winners chosen?

The app follows the live score and identifies the matching winning square automatically. If the first 100-square round is not full and the winning square is empty, an eligible player is selected by a weighted random draw from the filled squares.

What if all 100 squares do not fill up?

The game still has an event winner. When the winning square is empty, the free-grid lottery automatically makes a weighted draw from the players who have filled squares, giving each filled square one entry and declaring the winner.

Are payments and payouts real?

The grid records real payment status and payout completion. Free grids use manager-managed coordination: arrange collection and payouts directly with players, then use the grid to report or track the status. Upgrade for configured payment options, secure invitations, and additional manager automation.

What are simulated players?

Managers can optionally seed simulated players to see a fuller board and experience the game, payment tracking, and winner flow before inviting a real group.

How do I onboard players?

Share the player link in a private message, group chat, or email so players can choose their own squares. If you prefer to assign squares, import a CSV roster or add players manually. For a free grid, a player name is enough to assign squares; an email is optional for cross-device access and is needed only to send that player an email invitation.

Can players join after the game starts?

Yes, when future scoring events remain. New squares are eligible only for the events that have not happened yet.

What happens after the first 100 squares fill up?

The free grid can automatically expand into another 100-square round so more players can join without starting a separate game. Each round has its own winning square, and the app automatically identifies winners for every scoring event.

How many free grids can I run?

Each manager can have one active free grid at a time. Once that game is final, you can create another free grid. There is no lifetime limit on the number of free grids you can run.

How do I get help with all the controls?

Turn on Help Mode. It provides simple, in-context explanations for the toggles, lists, buttons, and other controls as you use them.

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Free version includes

For the home host

Make every quarter a moment.

Perfect for watch parties, tailgates, and backyard BBQs. Bring a few wrapped gifts or snacks, put them on the table, and let each winner choose.

For fundraisers

Turn game day into participation.

Configure prize catalogs, player limits, payment tracking, and live winner fulfillment for a polished event that is easy to share.

Your game. Your prizes.

Create a prize experience people remember.

Use one shared prize, separate regular and final prizes, or a different prize at every checkpoint. Winners see what they earned while you keep fulfillment organized in one ledger.

Make it easy to fill the board.

Set a clear per-square price so players see their exact total before reserving.

A Squares game is played during a sporting event on a grid with one team assigned to each axis. Participants choose grid squares, and the final digits of each team's score determine the winning square for each configured period.

The Squares Game supports NFL and college football, NBA, WNBA, men's and women's college basketball, the UFL, and the AFL (Australian Football League).

1. Players choose squares
2. Numbers are drawn

Top team

8 3 0 6 1

Left team

4 9 2 7 5

3. The winner is calculated

Score

27–24

Digits

7 · 4

How the game works

  1. 1. The grid: A standard 10 × 10 grid creates 100 total squares.
  2. 2. Team axes: One team is assigned to the top horizontal axis and the other to the left vertical axis.
  3. 3. Selecting squares: Before the game starts, players can choose empty squares manually or use Quick Pick.
  4. 4. Assigning numbers: When the game starts, The Squares Game automatically draws the numbers 0 through 9 in random order and assigns them to each row and column.
  5. 5. Winning: At the end of each configured event, the last digit of each team's score identifies the winning intersection on the grid. The Squares Game automatically calculates the winners.

The free version includes one active grid and the complete player and game-day experience: a public player link, live scores, number draws, and real winner identification. Upgrade when you want configurable prices and payouts, payment options, secure invitations, and manager automation.

Set up your free grid

Included free

Easy grid setup from the game schedule

The challenge

Creating a grid should not require the manager to type every team name, game time, and matchup detail by hand.

How The Squares Game helps

Search upcoming games by sport, league, and date, then select the matchup. The Squares Game fills in the teams and scheduled game details so the manager can focus on squares, payouts, and invitations.

Included free

Auto Expand beyond 100 squares

The challenge

A traditional 10 × 10 grid runs out of room after 100 squares, limiting larger groups and successful fundraisers.

How The Squares Game helps

When enabled, Auto Expand can open another 100 squares when the current round fills, letting more players join without forcing the manager to create and reconcile a separate game.

Fundraisers and large watch parties aren’t limited to 100 entries. More people can join the fun, increasing participation and giving fundraisers greater earning potential.

Included free

Start on your phone. Keep going on your computer.

The challenge

A manager may begin setting up a game on the go, then need a larger screen for a roster or other game details.

How The Squares Game helps

The Squares Game keeps the same game available across phone and desktop, so a manager can handle quick tasks on mobile and use CSV roster tools when a larger group calls for them.

Built to reduce manager work

Add and onboard players

Included free

Share a free game with a public link

The challenge

A casual group should be able to join without accounts, payment setup, or a formal invitation process.

How The Squares Game helps

In the free version, players open one public link, enter a name, and choose squares. The grid runs live with real player names, live scoring, number draws, and winner identification.

Included free

Join after the game starts

The challenge

A player may want to join the fun after the game starts even though future winning events—such as Q2—have not begun.

How The Squares Game helps

When enabled, new and returning players can join after play begins and participate in the remaining eligible events without changing events that have already started.

A late arrival doesn’t have to miss the entire game. Friends can keep joining the fun—and fundraisers can keep growing—while completed periods remain protected.

Included free

A complete free Squares game

The challenge

A group should be able to start a real Squares game quickly, then add workflow automation only when it will save the manager time.

How The Squares Game helps

The free version gives a group a live Squares game with player-selected squares, live scores, automatic number draws, winner identification, and manager-managed payment and payout tracking. The full version makes management easier with flexible payout settings, configured payment options, secure invitations, and manager automation.

Built to reduce manager work

Let The Squares Game run game day

Included free

Automatic game-start detection and number draws

The challenge

Watching the clock and manually drawing a new set of numbers at exactly the right moment takes the manager away from the game.

How The Squares Game helps

Using the live feed, The Squares Game detects when the game or a configured event starts and randomly assigns digits 0 through 9 to both team axes. Each number set is drawn only when its event begins—for example, Q2 numbers are drawn when Q2 starts.

Included free

Live scoreboard and play-by-play

The challenge

Managers and players should not have to switch between a sports app and the Squares grid to understand what is happening.

How The Squares Game helps

The Squares Game automatically brings the live score and play-by-play feed into the grid, so everyone can follow recent plays, the game clock, and the currently winning squares in one place.

Included free

Automatic winner identification

The challenge

Managers should not have to calculate score digits, locate the winning square, and match it to a player after every scoring period.

How The Squares Game helps

The Squares Game uses the live score to identify the winning square at each configured event and displays the real player name entered for that square.

Included free

Prize pools and winner catalogs

The challenge

A host or fundraiser may want the excitement of a Squares game without relying only on cash prizes.

How The Squares Game helps

Set up prize pools with catalogs players can view before the game. Winners see what applies to their event, while the manager records delivery or redemption in the game ledger.

For a party, guests can add good pass-along items to a shared prize table alongside host-provided snacks and small gifts. Winners choose their favorites and can trade if they want.

Help wherever you need it

Included free

Help Mode on every screen

The challenge

Managers and players often need guidance at the exact moment they encounter an unfamiliar option or workflow.

How The Squares Game helps

Help Mode explains buttons, checkboxes, list options, and other actionable controls directly on each screen, so people can learn what an option does without leaving their work or searching separate instructions.

Run your game confidently, even if it’s your first time. In-context guidance helps managers and players find answers quickly, reducing questions, mistakes, and interruptions.

Full version

Create and manage multiple grids

The challenge

Managers running several games need one place to organize each grid without losing track of what is active or complete.

How The Squares Game helps

The full version lets managers create and manage multiple grids from one dashboard, with grid credits determining how many new games they can run.

Full version

Flexible grid, pricing, and payout controls

The challenge

Different groups need different player limits, square prices, payout percentages, and prize splits.

How The Squares Game helps

The full version lets managers configure maximum squares per player, price per square, total payout percentage, and the payout assigned to each winning event—for example, 10% for Q1, Q2, and Q3 and 60% for Q4.

Full version

Multiple ways to add players

The challenge

Every group communicates differently, so relying on one invitation or registration method can make it harder to fill a grid.

How The Squares Game helps

Managers can assign squares directly, invite players through The Squares Game to select their own squares, or share the registration link through email, text, WhatsApp, or another messaging app so players can register themselves.

Full version

Stripe Connect card payments

The challenge

One of the biggest challenges in managing a Squares game is collecting payments and matching them to the right players.

How The Squares Game helps

After the manager connects Stripe and enables card checkout, players can pay for squares in the app, with funds going directly to the manager’s connected Stripe account. Each card payment remains linked to the player and square in the ledger for clear follow-up, including refunds.

Stripe guides eligible managers through secure account setup.

Managers remain responsible for card charges, refunds, disputes, and chargebacks associated with their grid.

Many online Squares tools leave managers to collect through a separate payment app and reconcile it by hand. The Squares Game connects in-app card checkout to the manager’s Stripe account and the grid ledger, so payment, player, and square stay together.

Full version

Integrated player payment ledger

The challenge

Across dozens of players and hundreds of squares, it quickly becomes difficult to remember who paid, how they paid, and which squares a payment covered.

How The Squares Game helps

In the full version, the integrated ledger lets the manager record payment methods and amounts, then quickly see who owes, who reported a payment, who is confirmed paid, and which squares each payment covers. This adds organized payment follow-up to the live game experience already available in a free grid.

Full version

Sweepstakes free-entry workflow

The challenge

A public promotion may need a clear free method of entry in addition to paid Squares, without creating manual review work for the manager.

How The Squares Game helps

The full version can issue form-based free-entry requests, validate each submission against the player's email, and automatically assign the grid's configured free-entry squares. Each free entry requires a separate Squares-issued form request. Each request can be redeemed once. Some supporters may avoid paid-entry raffles because of personal, faith-based, or financial convictions. Sweepstakes Mode provides a separate form-based free entry with no payment required to enter, giving fundraisers a more inclusive way to invite the whole community.

A free method of entry does not itself guarantee legal compliance. Managers should review applicable requirements and their organization's policies.

Full version

Remove unpaid squares when a configured event starts

The challenge

Players may reserve squares and never pay, or they may decide not to accept squares assigned by the manager. Without a clear policy, those unpaid reservations can remain on the board and participate in prizes.

How The Squares Game helps

When enabled, unpaid squares that were not reported or confirmed as paid stop participating as each configured event starts. Paid and reported-paid squares stay in the game for that event, and players can pay to rejoin the remaining game.

Managers and fundraisers can reserve the usual number of squares for regular players ahead of time. Players who want them can pay, while unclaimed reservations are automatically removed—making the grid easier to fill without creating extra cleanup.

Full version

Automatic winner calculation and payout tracking

The challenge

Finding the winner, calculating the prize, and remembering whether it was paid can turn every configured event into another manual reconciliation task.

How The Squares Game helps

When a configured event ends, The Squares Game matches the score digits to the winning square, identifies the player and preferred payout method, calculates the prize from the eligible amount and configured payout percentage, and keeps it visible until the manager records it as paid.

Free grids identify winners from live scores and support manager-managed payment and payout tracking. The full version adds flexible payout settings, configured payment options, and fuller manager operations for less manual coordination.

Squares game guides

Learn the rules, prepare a watch-party grid, organize a fundraiser, or create Squares for an upcoming football or basketball matchup.

Online Football SquaresCreate and manage a football Squares grid online.How to Play Football SquaresLearn the grid, number draw, and winning-score rules.Super Bowl SquaresSet up a Squares game for football’s biggest watch party.College Football SquaresRun Squares for college football matchups and bowl games.Football Squares FundraiserPlan a fundraiser with prize tracking and an optional free-entry workflow.Basketball SquaresCreate Squares for pro and college, men’s and women’s basketball.Supported SportsSee supported football and basketball leagues, including UFL and AFL.

Ready to create a grid?

Create one active free football or basketball Squares game with the complete player and game-day experience.

Start free—no account required. Choose an upcoming football or basketball game, share the player link, and let The Squares Game handle number draws, live scoring, and winners automatically.

No account required. Real scores, winners, and manager-managed payment and payout tracking. Coordinate collection and payouts directly, or upgrade for configured payment options and more automation.

Click here to download The Squares Game contactWhy: this helps manager login emails reach your inbox instead of junk or promotions.

Which winning events are included?

Your free grid uses the regulation scoring events for its game—such as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4 for football, or the matching basketball periods.

How are the numbers assigned?

The app automatically draws a fresh set of numbers for each winning event, so no one is stuck with the same number combination for the whole game.

Do managers or players need an account?

No. Managers can create a free grid and players can join without an account. An email is optional when someone wants to find their grid or use the same player identity across devices.

How are winners chosen?

The app follows the live score and identifies the matching winning square automatically. If the first 100-square round is not full and the winning square is empty, an eligible player is selected by a weighted random draw from the filled squares.

What if all 100 squares do not fill up?

The game still has an event winner. When the winning square is empty, the free-grid lottery automatically makes a weighted draw from the players who have filled squares, giving each filled square one entry and declaring the winner.

Are payments and payouts real?

The grid records real payment status and payout completion. Free grids use manager-managed coordination: arrange collection and payouts directly with players, then use the grid to report or track the status. Upgrade for configured payment options, secure invitations, and additional manager automation.

What are simulated players?

Managers can optionally seed simulated players to see a fuller board and experience the game, payment tracking, and winner flow before inviting a real group.

How do I onboard players?

Share the player link in a private message, group chat, or email so players can choose their own squares. If you prefer to assign squares, import a CSV roster or add players manually. For a free grid, a player name is enough to assign squares; an email is optional for cross-device access and is needed only to send that player an email invitation.

Can players join after the game starts?

Yes, when future scoring events remain. New squares are eligible only for the events that have not happened yet.

What happens after the first 100 squares fill up?

The free grid can automatically expand into another 100-square round so more players can join without starting a separate game. Each round has its own winning square, and the app automatically identifies winners for every scoring event.

How many free grids can I run?

Each manager can have one active free grid at a time. Once that game is final, you can create another free grid. There is no lifetime limit on the number of free grids you can run.

How do I get help with all the controls?

Turn on Help Mode. It provides simple, in-context explanations for the toggles, lists, buttons, and other controls as you use them.

Full version adds
Free version includes