Lotería
Other name(s)	Mexican bingo^[1]
Language(s)	Spanish
Random chance	High
Material(s) required	cards

Traditional card game similar to bingo. Each card has colorful image of popular Mexican figures. 10 boards, deck of cards. Loteria is a fun game for the entire family. The lotteries cards contain highly symbolic images that many people find as useful as carto Mancy cards or tarot when asking simple questions requiring highly iconic answers. DON CLEMENTE AUTENTICA Loteria Bingo Game Deck of 54 Cards, Baraja de loteria.

Lotería is a traditional game of chance, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of numbered ping pong balls. Every image has a name and an assigned number, but the number is usually ignored. Each player has at least one tabla, a board with a randomly created 4 x 4 grid of pictures with their corresponding name and number. Players choose a tabla to play with, from a variety of previously created tablas, each with a different selection of images.

Lotería is the Spanish word for lottery. The deck is composed with a set of 54 different cards with a picture on it. To start, the caller (cantor, or singer) shuffles the deck. One by one, the caller picks a card from the deck and announces it to the players by its name, sometimes using a verse before reading the card name. Each player locates the matching pictogram of the card just announced on their board and marks it off with a chip or other kind of marker. In Mexico, it is traditional to use small rocks, crown corks or pinto beans as markers. The winner is the first player that shouts '¡Buena!' right after completing a tabla or a previous agreed pattern: row, column, diagonal or a pozo.

Lotería de Pozo is a variant version of the traditional Mexican Lotería, where the basic rules apply. For this version, before the game begins, players agree on how many pozos are to be completed in a row, column or diagonal pattern. A Pozo is a group of images in a square. The square may contain 2 x 2 (4) or 3 x 3 (9) images^[2] for a traditional tabla.

Loteria online game^[3] is a game to allow computer users to play an online a version of the Lotería Mexicana. It was created in 1996.^[3]

History[edit]

Lotería game based on cacao being played at the Universum museum in Mexico City

Set up of a lotería game at the Museo de Culturas Populares in Toluca

Animation showing traditional ways to win

Loteria De Pozo

First Loteria game to play online 1996

The origin of lotería can be traced far back in history. The game originated in Italy in the 15th century and was brought to New Spain (modern Mexico) in 1769. In the beginning, lotería was a hobby of the upper classes,^[1] but eventually it became a tradition at Mexican fairs.

Don Clemente Jacques began publishing the game in 1887.^[1] The current images have become iconic in Mexican culture, as well as gaining popularity in the US and some European countries. Other popular Lotería sets are Lotería Leo, Gacela and Lotería de mi tierra.

During the 1930s, the Catholic church came up with their own version of la Lotería. It consisted of Catholic images instead of the traditional images used in the original game. The Catholic church did this to promote their beliefs by making their very own game board similar to the Lotería.^[1]

Cards and associated verses[edit]

Catrina in Chapala, Jalisco with dress of lotería cards

The following is a list of the original 54 lotería cards, traditionally and broadly recognized in Mexico. Below each card name and number, are the verses (in Spanish) sometimes used to tell the players which card was drawn. However, there are several less traditional sets of cards, depicting different objects or animals.

1 El gallo ('the rooster')

El que le cantó a San Pedro no le volverá a cantar.

The one that sang for St. Peter will never sing for him again.

2 El diablito ('the little Devil')

Pórtate bien cuatito, si no te lleva el coloradito.

Behave yourself buddy, or the little red one will take you away.

3 La dama ('the lady')

Puliendo el paso, por toda la calle real.

Improving her gait, all along the main street

4 El catrín ('the dandy')

Don Ferruco en la alameda, su bastón quería tirar.

Sir Ferruco in the poplar grove, wanted to toss away his cane.

5 El paraguas ('the umbrella')

Para el sol y para el agua.

For the sun and for the rain.

6 La sirena ('the mermaid')

Con los cantos de sirena, no te vayas a marear.

Don't be swayed by the songs of the siren. (In Spanish, sirens and mermaids and their song is synonymous.)

7 La escalera ('the ladder')

Súbeme paso a pasito, no quieras pegar brinquitos.

Ascend me step by step, don't try and skip.

8 La botella ('the bottle')

La herramienta del borracho.

The tool of the drunk.

9 El barril ('the barrel')

Tanto bebió el albañil, que quedó como barril.

So much did the bricklayer drink, he ended up like a barrel.

Fish table jammer app download for iphone 8 plus. 10 El árbol ('the tree')

El que a buen árbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija.

He who nears a good tree, is blanketed by good shade.

11 El melón ('the melon')

Me lo das o me lo quitas.

Give it to me or take it from me.

12 El valiente ('the brave man')

Por qué le corres cobarde, trayendo tan buen puñal.

Why do you run, coward? Having such a good blade too.

13 El gorrito ('the little bonnet')

Ponle su gorrito al nene, no se nos vaya a resfriar.

Put the bonnet on the baby, lest he catch a cold.

14 La muerte ('Death')

La muerte tilica y flaca.

Death, thin and lanky.

15 La pera ('the pear')

El que espera, desespera.

He who waits despairs. (A pun: espera 'to wait' and es pera ' to be a pear' are homophones in Mexican Spanish.)

16 La bandera ('the flag')

Verde blanco y colorado, la bandera del soldado.

Green, white, and red, the flag of the soldier.

17 El bandolón ('the mandolin')

Tocando su bandolón, está el mariachi Simón.

There playing his lute, is Simon the mariachi.

18 El violoncello ('the cello')

Creciendo se fue hasta el cielo, y como no fue violín, tuvo que ser violoncello.

Growing it reached the heavens, and since it wasn't a violin, it had to be a cello.

19 La garza ('the heron')

Al otro lado del río tengo mi banco de arena, donde se sienta mi chata pico de garza morena.

At the other side of the river I have my sand bank, where sits my darling short one, with the beak of a dark heron.

20 El pájaro ('the bird')

Tu me traes a puros brincos, como pájaro en la rama.

You have me hopping here and there, like a bird on a branch.

21 La mano ('the hand')

La mano de un criminal.

The hand of a criminal.

Don Clemente Loteria Cards