Circa Squares Puts Real Odds on Super Bowl Score Tables

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Last Updated 1st Feb 2025, 02:36 AM

Circa Squares 2025 Super Bowl

While randomness of betting squares can be part of the fun at a friendly Super Bowl party, in Circa's game you get to make some more skillful picks. Here's the Final Score board as of Wednesday. (Image: courtesy of Circa Sports)

Gambling and the Super Bowl have of course gone hand-in-hand forever. For as long as I can remember, Super Bowl Squares have been there as a fun way to have a rooting interest, no matter who’s playing the game.

Super Bowl Lottery Play

For those not familiar with how they work, here’s a quick explainer. There’s a 10x10 grid where the horizontal and vertical axes each contain a digit from 0 to 10. One axis represents the last digit of the AFC teams’ point total, the other axis is the for the NFC team. Players in the pool pick or get assigned the 100 boxes within the grid and pay some amount per box. You do not know what numbers you get when you sign up for the pool.

It can be $1 per box, it can be $500, it can be whatever. You win if you have the box that corresponds to the digits in the final score. For example, if you have Chiefs-7, Eagles-3, you win the pool if the game ends 27-23 Chiefs, 33-17 Eagles, etc. You probably will not take the whole pot down as virtually all “Box” pools have prizes for winning quarters or halves. Some also pay out “reverse” wins. In the above example, Eagles-7 and Chiefs-3 would get a win.

Now quite obviously, some numbers are better than others. In the NFL, you would want 0’s, 3’s, 4’s and 7’s and probably hope to avoid 9’s and 2’s and 5’s, though the Chiefs just beat the Bills 32-29 and the Eagles won their game 55-23. To some extent you want to avoid the same number on both sides like ‘3-3” since it's marginally tougher to land on even on a final score (though those are perfectly fine for quarters and halves).

So it's literally a lottery in regards to the numbers you get. 

Circa Squares Betting Alternative

But what if you could actually play the Squares and pick your numbers? Circa Sportsbook has us covered.

Bettors can win Circa Squares by correctly betting on the combination of the last digits for each team’s score at the end of each quarter. The bets are based around a board that has the home team on one axis and the away team on the other axis, as well as the numbers 0-9 running down both sides. Circa Squares are booked with fixed odds, meaning the odds on a betting ticket do not change and will be paid out if won.

Although based on the same concept as traditional football squares – with the combination of the last digits of each team's score at the end of each quarter determining which bettors win – Circa Squares is set apart by the following:

  • Bettors get to choose whichever squares they want.
  • Bettors can bet as many squares as they would like.
  • Bettors can choose different squares for different quarters.
  • Squares are available for the first, second and third quarters, as well as the final score.
  • Each square within each quarter has its own odds, and combinations that are less likely to happen pay out more than those that are more likely to occur.”

Circa Squares betting is available at all seven Circa Sportsbooks in Nevada, and online in Nevada, Colorado, IllinoisIowa and Kentucky. 

Good for the House, Gander?

This actually marks the sixth year Circa has offered these square-based bets. 

”We do it so people can pick their own numbers and the odds associated with them rather than getting stuck with numbers they don’t like,” Circa Sportsbook Director of Operations Jeffrey Benson told Casinos.com. 

(I have played a lot of these over the years and I have gotten numbers I didn’t like virtually always. Really, 5 and an 8 again?!

Circa VP of Operations Mike Palm shared some added motivation for the Book on a VSiN podcast earlier this week. 

“We were running so many boards at our different Super Bowl parties. I think one year we had 12 or 13 boards. Very labor intensive and with zero profit,” Palm said. “(CEO) Derek (Stevens) wanted to find a way to book through Circa Sports and monetize the interest in it and free up a lot of hands on Super Bowl Sunday.”

Circa offers quarterly odds and final score odds, and you can play for as low as $1 and as high as whatever the box costs for a max $100,000 payout. You can buy as many squares as you like. Here is the board for Final Score, with odds as of 1/27

As with a regular bet, your price locks in when you place the wager. The posted odds can change however between now and the start of the game. You can play at any Circa property or on the app as long as you are in a state where Circa operates (Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky and Iowa).

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