Printable Squares grid, blank
A 10×10 board for any football or basketball game, with 100 empty squares and nothing filled in for you. Name the teams, choose the paper, print it. Free, and no account to make first.
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What people print it for
Office pools
Print it once, pin it by the kettle and let people write their own names in over the week. Nobody needs an app, an account or a link they will lose.
Playoff weekends
One sheet per game, or one board that runs all afternoon. Set a different title on each and the pile stays sortable.
Basketball nights
Squares works for any sport where both scores keep climbing past ten. Basketball is the other one where every digit genuinely comes up.
Kids and classrooms
Drop the price per square entirely and the sheet prints with no money on it at all: just a grid, two teams and somewhere to write a hundred names.
Draw the numbers last, always
Every sheet here prints with the number row and column empty, and that is the single rule that decides whether a Squares pool is fair. A grid handed out with the digits already on it lets anyone see which numbers are still free and claim around them, and 0, 3 and 7 go first.
So: names first, all one hundred of them. Then write 0 through 9 on ten slips, pull them one at a time for the columns, put them back, and pull again for the rows. Do it in front of everybody if you can.
Reading the board
Say it ends 31–27. Take the last digit of each: 1 for the team across the top, 7 for the team down the side. Find column 1, follow row 7 across, and whoever wrote their name where they meet takes the final share.
Questions about the printable board
What is a football Squares grid?
A 10 by 10 grid of 100 squares. Everybody writes their name in the squares they want. Once all 100 are taken, each column gets a random digit from 0 to 9 across the top and each row gets one down the side. At the end of each period, the last digit of each team's score points at one column and one row, and whoever's name is in the square where they cross wins that period.
Does this work for anything other than football?
Yes, for any sport where both scores climb well past ten, which in practice means football and basketball. It works badly for hockey and baseball: those games are usually settled in low single figures, so digits like 7, 8 and 9 almost never come up and a large part of the board is dead the moment it is drawn. People paid the same for those squares.
Can I print it without any prices on it?
Yes. Leave the price per square blank and the sheet prints the payout column as percentages instead of dollars, or you can set all four to zero and it becomes a plain grid with no money on it anywhere. That is the version to use for a classroom, a kids' party, or anywhere a cash pool is not the point.
What paper sizes can I print it on?
Letter, A4, Tabloid, A3, or a 24 by 36 inch poster, in portrait or landscape. Nothing on the sheet is an image, so save it as a PDF and it will enlarge cleanly to whatever a print shop can handle.
Why are the number boxes empty?
Because they have to be until the grid is full. If people can see which digits are still unclaimed while they are choosing squares, they will pick around them, and the pool stops being a draw and starts being a race. Fill the board first, then draw 0 through 9 from a hat for each axis and write them in.
Is there a version that does the numbers and the payouts for me?
That is the rest of this site. The same board runs online: squares are claimed through one private link, the digits draw themselves the moment the hundredth square is taken, and every period settles automatically from the live score. The printable sheet is here because sometimes paper is genuinely the right answer.
Or skip the envelope of cash
The same board runs online for your group: one private link, cards held until it fills, digits drawn automatically, every period paid from the live score.
Printing one for the big game? There is a Super Bowl version of this sheet