Each raffle is a 10×10 grid of 100 tickets. Before any ticket is sold, every row and column is assigned a digit from 0 to 9 by a sealed draw anyone can re-run, and the digits are printed on each ticket. At the end of each scoring period — usually the final score, plus the half for marquee games — the last digit of each team's score picks the winning ticket.
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Buy your ticket in person
Get a raffle ticket from the organizer running it and pay them at the sale — cash, check, Venmo, card reader. Then track it here.
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Track it online
Create a free account to see your ticket, your numbers, and your games live. No money runs through the platform.
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Numbers drawn before you buy
The numbers are drawn at setup from a sealed seed and printed on your ticket — anyone can re-run the draw from the published seed, so no one can grab favorable numbers. Fresh numbers every game.
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The score draws the winners
When the game ends — and at halftime on the marquee games — the last digit of each team's score picks the winning ticket. Yours glows when it's in the running, and you get an email when it wins — no clawbacks. Then pick from the prizes your organizer set up; they hand it over and mark it delivered. Or donate it back to the cause.
You buy your ticket from the organizer in person — the platform just tracks who's in and who's paid. Every ticket is a fundraiser for the cause.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
What is Sunday Squares?
Sunday Squares is a platform for running season-long football squares raffles that raise money for nonprofits — booster clubs, Knights of Columbus councils, parishes, and PTAs. One raffle ticket plays every game all season, and the proceeds go to the cause.
How does a football squares raffle work?
Each raffle is a 10×10 grid of 100 tickets. Before any ticket is sold, every row and column is assigned a digit from 0 to 9 by a sealed draw anyone can re-run, and the digits are printed on each ticket. At the end of each scoring period — usually the final score, plus the half for marquee games — the last digit of each team's score picks the winning ticket.
Is Sunday Squares sports betting or gambling?
No. Sunday Squares runs charitable raffles under state charitable-gaming rules (for example, California Penal Code §320.5). Tickets are sold in person, the winning tickets are determined by the football score, and the proceeds benefit a nonprofit cause. It is not a sportsbook and takes no bets.
Who determines the winners?
The football score does. Winning tickets are computed automatically from each game's official score — there is no organizer override. The number draw uses a sealed, verifiable method, so anyone can check afterward that it was fair.
How much of the money goes to the cause?
The large majority of ticket proceeds go to the nonprofit cause; the rest covers the organizing group's own costs. Sunday Squares never takes a cut of ticket sales — the platform is a flat annual software fee the group pays. Sponsors fund the group's prizes, not the software.
How are tickets sold?
In person, on paper. Volunteers sell physical ticket books and record each sale; buyers can pay by cash, check, or card at the point of sale. Online electronic ticket sales aren't used, which keeps the raffle within charitable-gaming law.
Can one raffle cover a whole season?
Yes. A raffle can be a single game like the Super Bowl, or a full season — one ticket that plays one primetime game a week, up to 22 games including Thanksgiving, the playoffs, and the Super Bowl, with bigger games paying larger prizes.
Who can run a Sunday Squares raffle?
Nonprofit fundraising groups — booster clubs, Knights of Columbus councils, parishes, PTAs, and similar organizations. Groups apply to get started, and prizes are funded by donations or the group itself, never out of ticket proceeds.
Squares, in plain words
- Raffle
- The whole game your nonprofit runs — one grid of tickets for a game or a season. “Join the raffle” = get a ticket.
- Ticket
- One spot on the grid, and your spot all season. A raffle ticket you buy in person; grab one or a few.
- Grid
- The 10×10 grid of 100 tickets. Numbers run across the top and down the side.
- Your numbers
- The two digits your ticket lands on — one from the top, one from the side — drawn at random at setup, before any ticket is printed, so they are on your ticket from the day you buy it.
- Lock
- The moment sales close and the grid is final. The numbers were drawn long before, from a seed sealed in advance so no one could pick favorable numbers.
- Period
- A scoring checkpoint the raffle pays on. Most games pay the final score only; the marquee games add halftime. Each paying period draws a winning ticket.
- How you win
- At each period, take the last digit of each team’s score; the ticket where those two digits cross wins that prize.
- A fair draw you can check
- The winning numbers are sealed before anyone picks and revealed after the draw, so anyone can check for themselves that it wasn’t rigged.
- Prize / gift
- What a winning ticket gets — a prize the winner picks from a short menu the organizer set up, handed over by the organizer and marked delivered. Winners can always donate a prize back to the fundraiser instead — plenty do.
- Charitable raffle
- How every Sunday Squares raffle runs: a registered nonprofit raffle — the money goes to the cause, tickets are sold in person, and the platform tracks your state filings. Rules vary by state.
- Where the money goes
- The large majority of ticket sales goes to your beneficial or charitable purpose; a small share can stay with your group. Prizes are donated or funded by the group — not from ticket sales. The software is a flat annual fee the group pays, and Sunday Squares never takes a cut of ticket sales.
- Organizer
- The nonprofit running the raffle — booster club, council, parish, or PTA.