Alright, we’re days away from the Super Bowl between the Seahawks and Patriots.
Yes, we’re looking forward to the halftime show featuring Bad Bunny. Yes, we’re looking forward to the best commercials of the year. Yes, we’re looking forward to the actual game.
But… we’re equally excited about playing games at the Super Bowl party! Super Bowl games are as big a part of the festivities as betting on it the best sportsbook websites. We want to give you some fun ideas to spice up your Super Bowl party this time around so stick around to see what we got!
Squares Game
Alright, squares is an undefeated Super Bowl game idea. Undefeated! If you’re watching the game in a group setting, you almost have to throw up one of these contests (it’s stupid easy).
Allow us to explain: draw up a 10×10 grid, label one axis Seahawks points and the other Patriots points, then let everyone buy a square (or a few). After the board fills up, randomly assign numbers 0–9 to each row and column.
Let’s say you own the square with Seahawks 9 and Patriots 1, then you’re rooting for the game’s final score to end in those digits. Something like Seahawks 19, Patriots 21. In that scenario, you win the entire contest (either bragging rights or money if you all decided to stake on it)
Most folks just make one square game for the whole game. However, if you want to be a little more degenerate than that, consider offering up a contest for halves or even quarters.
What we love about squares is that everyone participating is invested. The friend who doesn’t know sh*t about football? They still care about the game’s final score if they got a square. And this contest is truly never over until the very end so people stay dialed in the whole time.
Like we said, squares stays undefeated. This game is a guaranteed way to create laughs, trash talk, and chaos within your friend group. Don’t sleep on it!
Commercial Draft
Super Bowl commercials are an event in themself, which makes them great fodder to build a game around.
As we said earlier on, for a lot of people in the party room, the ads are the Super Bowl. Many look forward to what the likes of Doritos, Pepsi, beer brands will do to stand out from the crowd. Humor? Patriotism? Something shocking?
This dynamic makes a commercial draft an elite-tier Super Bowl game. It’s also less commonly known so something you can use to stand out your own festivities from the rest.
Listen up so before kickoff, write down a list of brands or categories that usually show up in Super Bowl ads. Things like Budweiser, Pepsi, Doritos, Nike, movie trailers, fast food chains, car companies, beer brands, AI companies, and celebrity appearances.
Then run a snake draft. Everyone takes turns selecting one item from the board. If you draft “Doritos,” you get credit for every Doritos commercial that airs. If you draft “movie trailers,” every trailer counts for you. If you grab “celebrity cameo,” any ad featuring a famous person scores for your team.
Set a simple scoring system ahead of time. Something like:
- +1 point per appearance
- +2 points if the group agrees it was great
- -1 if it was agreed to be awful
At the end of the night, total up the points. Highest score wins the pot of money (or bragging rights if not truly betting on it).
“Traditional” Outcomes
If drafting commercials feels like too much work and you’d rather spend that pre-kickoff time boozing, then we suggest just straight-up putting money on the game like you normally would.
Which team wins? Which player wins the MVP? What is the doin toss result? These are all outcomes you can wager on with friends at the Super Bowl party.
You think the Patriots are going to pull of an upset win? Find someone who’s convinced the Seahawks are winning and shake on a Super Bow bet on the spot right there.
There’s an unlimited number of outcomes you can bet on inside the game. We suggest hitting up the best sportsbook websites to get a full list of Super Bowl bets. You’ll literally find hundreds of options right there.
The question is, can you find someone at your party to take the other side of the bet? If you can’t, then hell, just bet at the damn website. They’ll happily take your money (and pay out if you win). This way, you also can bet as much or as little as you’d like without pressure from the other person. Sportsbooks have little to no limits on how much money they’ll allow you to bet, too.
Boom, you’re ready to get some fun bets and games out of the Super Bowl now. Remember, anyone can throw a Super Bowl party. But it takes a little extra to throw a memorable party full of games, laughter, and exchanging of money…. we hope these ideas provided you with a spark before the “big game.”
