By the ScoreBoard team - published Nov 4, 2026, numbers updated Nov 4, 2026.
Short answer: give each game its own 10x10 board, let every adult at the table pick squares before kickoff, and check the last digit of each team's score at the end of every quarter. Here is how to set it up in about five minutes.
Thursday, Nov 26 (Central time): Bears at Lions, 12:00 PM (CBS) - Eagles at Cowboys, 3:30 PM (FOX) - Chiefs at Bills, 7:20 PM (NBC).
Black Friday, Nov 27: Broncos at Steelers, 2:00 PM (Prime Video).
One board per game is the easiest to follow: a new board and new digits at each kickoff, and everyone gets a fresh start. Each board has 8 squares that hit (the Right Way and Wrong Way at the end of every quarter), so three games give the table 24 moments to watch on Thursday.
One board for the whole day works too, but it is harder to track across three games and people stop checking by the night game.
1. Everyone 21+ signs up free and gets 250 free Tickets (100 more every day). 2. Open the Thanksgiving squares page and pick a game. 3. Pick squares before the board locks, 10 minutes before kickoff. 4. The digits are drawn at random when it locks, and live scores light up the square for each quarter - nobody has to fill in a grid or do the math.
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In the 121 NFL games finished so far this season, the most common last digits at the end of a quarter were 0 (23.9%), 7 (22.1%), 3 (18.7%), and the least common were 5 (1.8%), 8 (1.9%), 2 (2.2%). Touchdowns with the extra point (7) and field goals (3) are why.
See the full counts, including the most common digit pairs, on the squares numbers page.
Explain Right Way and Wrong Way once before kickoff: Right Way reads the away team's digit on the row and the home team's digit on the column, and Wrong Way swaps them.
Check the board at the end of each quarter, not every play - it keeps the game in the background of dinner instead of the center of it.
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