Update On Our Super Bowl Squares Board

by Christopher Gates on Jan 26, 2012 1:00 PM CST in Site Stuff

Since I was unable to bump yesterday's story for a couple of reasons, I'll just go ahead and do up a new post here for the status of our Super Bowl Squares game to benefit Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors.

Thus far, 27 of the 100 squares have been purchased, which means that we're over a quarter of the way to filling up the board. To this point, all of the squares that have been claimed are bought and paid for, which is pretty sweet. I know that it's that time of the month where folks might be waiting for pay day, and that's fine. . .we just want to have the board filled up before kickoff on Sunday, February 5.

If you need the information about the board again, here it is. The board is located at

http://www.superbowlsquares.org/5hqbe

The username for the board is dnh4ww, and the password is skol. All in lower case just like you see there. When you are ready to send the payment in, the proper PayPal address is DailyNorseman AT Gmail DOT com (substituting the proper symbols in the obvious places there). Remember, when you PayPal the money, please use "Other" as your reason for payment, or else PayPal will charge a fee in between the time it goes from your bank account to the PayPal account.

So there you have it. . .we're more than a quarter of the way to raising $1,000 for Jared Allen's Homes for Wounded Warriors. If you want to get in on the action, you still can!

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hey chris

If you don’t have a bank account verified it still charges a fee

by Lunchpail on Jan 26, 2012 1:05 PM CST via mobile reply actions

Also

It is possible to pay the fee yourself so Chris does get the full $20. It was only 88 cents for me.

by nectur on Jan 26, 2012 1:24 PM CST up reply actions

Is it really random?

Just a procedural question. Will each row and column be randomly assigned a team-number combo? That is, can row 1 be Patriots 4 and row 2 be Giants 9? Or, once row 1 is assigned Patriots 4, will row 2 be automatically assigned Patriots 5?

Or, does one team get all the rows and the other gets all the columns? If so, there may be some probabilistic strategy that may give certain squares an edge. :-)

by rvduluthmn on Jan 26, 2012 1:51 PM CST reply actions

Nope

All the numbers across the top will represent the Giants’ score, and all the numbers down the side will represent the Patriots’ score.

However, the numbers aren’t being drawn until after the whole 10×10 grid has been filled. So, as it stands now, no square has a particular advantage over any other square.

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by Christopher Gates on Jan 26, 2012 1:54 PM CST up reply actions

And yes

The assignment of the numbers is random. Once the grid is complete, all I have to do is hit the “Generate Numbers” button, and the numbers for both the rows and the columns will be randomly assigned. I have nothing to do with that process outside of hitting the button.

by Christopher Gates on Jan 26, 2012 1:55 PM CST up reply actions

Odds

For those interested, after the numbers are generated you can check your odds here:

Squares for squares

Hopefully you’re not the one with 2-2.

by NastyPapercut on Jan 26, 2012 2:13 PM CST reply actions

I'm In

I bought 2 squares. I didn’t want to appear greedy so I stopped at 2, but I can buy more later if needed.

I would also suggest that if we get to the end and have fewer than 20 unsold squares, instead of giving up and refunding money, we give the unassigned squares to Homes for Wounded Warriors and just reduce the pay-offs proportionally to how much we collected.

by Alchemist1342 on Jan 26, 2012 5:41 PM CST reply actions

Im in for more if needed

But Ill wait till later in the week so every body has a chance.

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by just another viking on Jan 26, 2012 11:12 PM CST reply actions