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Well, the playoff die has been cast, and Pittsburgh and Seattle will represent their respective conferences in Super Bowl XL in Detroit. You don't have to have tickets to the game to have a good time, though. There'll be plenty of Super Bowl parties to enjoy and good food to eat. Check out our articles on how to have a great Super Bowl Party and our Super Bowl Recipe party for more on that. What is left to do? Super Bowl betting pools.

With the big game less than two weeks away, now is a good time to get the skinny on Super Bowl betting pools.

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One of the most popular types of Super Bowl betting pools is the 100-square pool. The way it works is you have a 10x10 grid, with the numbers zero through nine along the top and down the side. So that makes 100 squares (10x10=100). Then you put the Steelers above the top of the grid and the Seahawks along the side.

Ok, now that you're "squared away" with your grid, you can begin selling squares. Each square represents one unit, and the money collected goes into the prize pool. To win, a player must have the square that corresponds on the grid with the final digits of the score. For example, if Pittsburgh wins 35-7, then the winner would be the person who has the square at the intersection of the 5 along the horizontal axis (because that is where we placed Pittsburgh) and the 7 along the vertical (for Seattle).

Obviously, it is better to have numbers like 7 and 3, for example, than something like 8 and 6, because the former is more likely to come up in a game.

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A good way to work this is to set up four progressively valuable prizes, one for the end of the first quarter, one at the half, one at the end of the third quarter, and the big one for the final score. This will keep people interested even if they don't care about the teams, or if the game is a snoozer.

The best part of this pool is that there are a lot of opportunities to win throughout the game, which will keep everyone at the party involved right up until the end.

So, even if you aren't participating in the festivities in Detroit, you can still have fun, and a little action, with a well-run Super Bowl pool.