I love getting friends and family involved with a football pool for the Super Bowl.  The game itself is usually a bust, so being able to enjoy the company of those watching is just as important as the outcome.  I also hated waiting for the Super Bowl each year just to play the “squares game”.  I needed a solution that could allow me to play the “squares game” for any football game college or pro, and allow me to play with only a few people.  After a few months of trial and error, I created a solution, the SUPER SQUARES FOOTBALL GAME.

Now I found myself able to play the “squares game” each and every weekend during the football season, and I could play it almost anywhere.  At home with a few friends, at a local establishment with a few friends and a few strangers, or at the office.  And I no longer needed 50 to 60 people around, I could play with as few as 5 and up to 20.

After playing a few times, word got out and started Big Game Sports Cards, Inc. 

Square Shooters was not the first idea I had had of a game. After making prototypes of my other ideas and submitting them to various agents and being rejected.I learned the novice often make various games with a monopoly type board different theme's. Games need to be unique, not a knock-off of another game. This lead me to thinking of other game possibilities.

          Late one evening it occured to me that you could put an entire deck of playing cards on a set of nine dice. I had seen poker dice, but not dice that have the entire deck. I thought maybe no one had because maybe it wasn't possible to place the cards on the dice and sequence them making it possible to roll all 13 four of a kinds and all 40 possible straight flush combinations. I reasoned that if the cards were placed making these possible along with the stratigic placement of jokers( making them wild) , you could then roll any possible poker hand.

        After making charts and moving the cards around a few hours I discovered it was possible.So, I proceeded out to the barn dragging my husbands cross-cut saw into my kitchen and I spent the rest of the night cutting little dice sized blocks of wood and hand writing the numbers and suits on the dice, because I had to see them roll!! By then it was about 5 A.M. I'm exhausted, there's saw dust all over the kitchen and I'm too tired to clean up the mess. But I had my first prototype. My husband of course thought I'd either lost my mind or we had a really bad investation of termites!
       I spent the next week cutting and pasting cards to my blocks of wood I had painted white. I made 4 sets of dice and I also made a deck of cards that depicted various poker hands, 36 in all. Each player would be trying to roll the poker hand depicted on an upturned card. That was the original game.
     I then asked a family of friends, that were avid game players to play test the game and tell me what they thought. I can tell you they rolled the paint right off those dice, THEY LOVED IT!!!

     Fast forward 15 years. After reading about a local entrepreneur Jonah White of BillyBob Teeth in a magazine, My best friend contacted Jonah asking for a meeting. He agreed to see us and has helped me find a manufacturer and has be advising me . With his help I sold my first order to Spencers Gifts. Although the version I sold to them is a strip/poker drinking game. There are many games you can play with the Square Shooters dice.

    I still want to manufacture and marketing the original game in the form created and I hope to be able to do that soon. But for now we are offering a single set of dice with instructions for various games.