Lotería is a traditional Mexican game that came over from Spain around 1769. Originally, it was a game enjoyed by the wealthy, but eventually was played by everyone. The Lotería Game is still popular at fairs and celebrations throughout Mexico. The most common version of the game was first published in 1887 by Don Clemente Jacques. This edition is still popular today.

We bought our loteria game for $5.89 on Amazon. We’ve seen the same game, with the same cards, for as much as $25.00! CAUTION: Before playing the game with your children, you will want to go through the cards. These were first published 1887. Some people may find a couple of the cards inappropriate to use today.

Lotería Game Equipment

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2. Because the Loteria cards include the name of the pictured character, they are used to teach reading, writing, history, and social values. Many bilingual teachers use the game as a teaching tool in the United States. One of the more interesting historical versions was an educational, liturgical Loteria that appeared in.

• 3 or more players
• tokensto cover squares (can be game tokens or other small objects like buttons, bits of paper, beans, etc.)

How to play the Lotería Game

The Lotería game is similar to Bingo with several striking differences. Lotería has a deck of 54 cards. On the front of the card is a picture of an object and its name is Spanish. On the back of the card is a riddle. Each person gets a tabla (playing board) that has a 4 x 4 grid with random pictures of the cards on the board. The cards are mixed and randomly called out. If a player has the image on his playing board, he may cover it with a marker. (Can be small pieces of paper, buttons, coins, tokens, etc.) The first person who fills a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally, calls out, and wins the game.

There are variations on how to play the game. In the first version, the caller simply holds up the card and says the name of the object. In another version, the caller reads the clues on the back of the card and players must cover an object based on the clues.

How to Use the Lotería Game

The Lotería Game can be used to help children learn some basic Spanish nouns. If your family speaks Spanish or knows someone that does, you will be able to use the riddles on the cards. If you type in the words mexican loteria cards translations on an internet search, you will find many sites that do have translations for the cards. Also, on the back of each of the 20 game boards, there is a short story or poem. CAUTION: If you try to use an online translator yourself, you will find that many of the cards will be inaccurately translated. Like any language, Spanish uses colloquialisms and puns. Without being aware of the cultural references, literal translations may be wrong or inappropriate.

In Wee Folk Art’s Cultural Connections :: Unit 6, the book El juego de la Lotería by Rene Colato Lainez is used when studying Mexico. It is about a young boy that goes to visit his grandmother in Mexico. The young boy speaks little Spanish and his grandmother does not speak English. Through the use of the Lotería Game, both begin learning a new language. After reading the book, children will have a better understanding of the game.

If you wish to buy this game, be careful. We bought our loteria game for $5.89 on Amazon. We’ve seen the same game, with the same cards, for as much as $25.00!

CAUTION: Before playing the game with your children, you will want to go through the cards. These were first published 1887. Some people may find a couple of the cards inappropriate to use today. If you would like, remove those cards from the game along with the game boards with those pictures. Not to worry. There are many cards and boards so the removal of a few of them will not be missed.

Each Lotería card includes an illustration and Spanish description of an essential worker.

Looking for something to do in quarantine? A California school administrator got creative by imagining a new version of the traditional Mexican card game, Lotería.

Dr. Alfredo Ponce, otherwise known on social media as Pholkgiant, used his graphic design skills to create the 'Essential Workers' Lotería board game.

'I’ve always wanted to be an artist,' Ponce said. 'I’m not even the best artist in my family, but I think the grit … in Latino homes…never left me.'

Ponce is currently the principal of the Sanger Unified School District’s (SUSD) Community Day School, and working from home during the pandemic. He was inspired to create the board game after looking at the efforts of his wife, a gynecologist in Fresno.

'If you know or work or live with someone who is an essential worker, you begin to see the stress,' Ponce said. 'To not be able to help them … it's extremely frustrating.'

Lotería is a board game that uses a deck of 54 cards, each with a colorful illustration of Spanish words. Ponce created a similar version, using the same design and rules from the traditional game, but replaced the characters on the cards with the names and illustrations of essential workers.

In fact, the first card he created depicted his wife, and after posting it on social media, the response inspired Ponce to create an entire set of cards for the board game.

“If I can do this and bringa smile to my wife, I can do this for other essential workers in the area, inthe state… across the world,” Ponce said.

Ponce says that many essentialworkers, including his wife, works long hours, and that his illustrations ofthem can give them the recognition they deserve.

In the collection, Poncecreated cards for nurses, doctors, farm workers, newscasters, firefighters, andother frontline employees.

'Every face that you see tells a story … it's someone's story,' Ponce said.

Ponce has spoken to and created cards for doctors in Nepal, India, here in California and other regions across the world. Each card represents an essential worker and depicts their struggles during the pandemic. Ponce hopes that his cards can bring more awareness to the working conditions of essential workers and inspire community support.

'We're all in this together,' Ponce said. 'At the end, as Americans, as human beings across the world, we become better human beings because of the challenges that we face and the strategies and the things we put together to overcome.'

Loteria Cards List With Pictures

Ponce is currently selling his board game online at https://www.pholkgiant.com/ for $19.99. A portion of the proceeds will be donated.