Block, Box or Squares? (1 Viewer)

[belljr]

Block, Box or Squares what do you call the Super Bowl pool you buy a block/box/square?


I think this was done already but couldn't find it

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Box

 

[Dr. Octopus]

I’ve heard box or squares.

 

[WDIK2]

Square

 

[The Gator]

Never heard of anything other than squares.

 

[Dezbelief]

I have only heard squares.

 

[Gally]

I have never heard it referred to block or box. It is only referred to as squares.

 

[Raging weasel]

Only heard it called squares also.

 

[belljr]

shocked !!! it was block since the 80s for me lol only recently heard squares

 

[zamboni]

Tossed away funds

 

[Lomez]

Squares, but Jack Dorsey says we have to start calling them blocks.

 

[Gally]

Many years ago I used to run a lot of Super Bowl squares pools every year. They ranged from $5 to $20 with different payout models. I would get a lot of the same people year after year and some of them had specific squares they always wanted.

One year I asked a long time buddy if he wanted a square or two. He did so I asked if there was a particular square he wanted. His response back to me was "have you picked the numbers yet?" I said no, and he responded "then why the **** do I care where my square is?" I about lost it. ..hahahaha

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Gambling in the purist sense. But if the person running it doesn't take a cut, it's better than most gambling in terms of ROI.

 

[Scoresman]

Gonna start calling these Super Bowl Parallelograms and see if it catches on.

 

[Gally]

Gambling in the purist sense. But if the person running it doesn't take a cut, it's better than most gambling in terms of ROI.

I have been asked to get in these where the guy running it took a cut and always refused. I have gotten in some as a fundraiser for my son's baseball team where the team took a cut but that is a different thing altogether. It's actually quite an easy fundraiser for a sports team. There are always sports parents that are degenerate gamblers.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Gambling in the purist sense. But if the person running it doesn't take a cut, it's better than most gambling in terms of ROI.

I have been asked to get in these where the guy running it took a cut and always refused. I have gotten in some as a fundraiser for my son's baseball team where the team took a cut but that is a different thing altogether. It's actually quite an easy fundraiser for a sports team. There are always sports parents that are degenerate gamblers.

Yeah if it's a charity thing that's a different situation in that you are contributing to a good cause and also having fun. But I'm with you on the takeout bookies, I'd rather just tip a no cut guy for his trouble off my rare win.

 

[titusbramble]

Yeah, taking a cut out of squares for non charity purposes makes it a very easy no thanks

 

[belljr]

I never took a cut. Before it was online and all paper, I would take one free block. But I made it known

 

[Chemical X]

this is like sub, grinder, hoagie.

 

[Dr_Zaius]

Gonna start calling these Super Bowl Parallelograms and see if it catches on.

Rhombus would be even more fun to say, but whether the printout is symmetric in both X and Y is somewhat variable. Of course when it's not that would make "squares" technically wrong too.

Didn't know "block" was a weird niche thing. That's why I've always heard them called.

 

[The Z Machine]

Tossed away funds

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