The Squares Game helps managers create grids, invite players, track payments, follow live scores and play-by-play, calculate winners, and manage payout amounts.
A Squares game is a popular chance-based pool played during sporting events—especially football and the Super Bowl. Participants claim grid squares for a chance to win cash or prizes based on the score. It adds another layer of fun to a watch party, with players cheering for the score digits that match their squares at the end of each configured event.
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).
Top team
8 3 0 6 1
Left team
4 9 2 7 5
Score
27–24
Digits
7 · 4
That is why The Squares Game exists. It is an online Squares game app built so managers can have fun too—not just run the paperwork while everyone else watches the game.
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.
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.
Built to reduce manager work
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.
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
Managers can accept card payments through Stripe or save instructions for Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, Cash App, and other direct payment methods, so players see the available options and exactly how to pay.
You do not need to form a corporation or LLC to apply for Stripe. Stripe supports individual and sole-proprietor accounts in the United States and Canada; in the U.S., applicants without an EIN can use an SSN or ITIN. Stripe guides the manager through secure setup and verifies eligibility.
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
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.
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.
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.
Built to reduce manager work
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.
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.
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.
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.
Start with the freemium version, create your game, and invite players when your grid is ready.