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Pick a Square!

Ok, so when the Superbowl is around and you're having a party, have you ever been asked to purchase a square?  It's a contest where you select squares, and each square you pick costs you a certain amount of money.  There are 100 squares total.

After all the squares are filled in, you select numbers 0-9 randomly for the top and side of your 10x10 matrix.  Then after each quarter (for football) you take the ending score of each team to decide who wins.  

Now there are variations of when someone wins like after a quarter or a half, etc.  But you can also do this for basketball.  And this is something I'm doing for March Madness!

I created an online system that allows you to pick your squares.  Once you pick a square it's locked and cannot be changed (unless manually by me in the database).  It was a fun little project to work on and really didn't take very long.

If you'd like to see it or more info about it just let me know.  I only had to create one database table and 2 .asp pages for the program.

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