The Numbers: Guest columnist Jim Chairusmi explores the popular Super Bowl box pools, the chances of your numbers coming in and how the change in the extra-point distance this season has made ...

Known as Super Bowl Squares, or boxes, the game is played on a 10-by-10 board. Once each box is "claimed" by a participant, the pool's organizer randomly assigns a number from 0 to 9 to each slot ...

This number — along with two — is box pool death, usually only seen when something rare happens, like a safety, which has occurred just six times in the history of the Super Bowl, ...

That same trend holds true at the end of the third quarter as well, with no order change among the five best boxes to have in the pool. The sixth box on the list, 4,0, has been successful 4.1 ...

For instance, if the cost of each box is five M&Ms and Tom writes his name in three boxes, he owes the pool 15 M&Ms. 3. ... Those numbers now correspond to the last number in the team’s score.

The Super Bowl is exciting for the numerous different ways to wager on the game, whether it’s via the standard against-the-spread or over/under bet, one of the countless exotic props or even a ...

A box pool has 100 squares. Numbers from 0-9 are pulled randomly for the AFC team and the NFC team and arranged down the left-hand side of the box for one team and along the bottom for the other.

One of the easiest ways to gamble on the Super Bowl without knowing anything about the New York Giants or New England Patriots is trying your luck in a Super Bowl squares game ...

Here's what a typical Super Bowl box pool looks like. While certain numbers are still better than others, changes in the game have helped improve everyone's chances to win big.