We’re carrying on the Happy Star Wars happiness. It’ll stop soon I promise, for tomorrow shall belong to the dark side of the Force. Darth Vader tweeted this earlier today:
@darthvader: In addition, I declare tomorrow to be “Dark Lord of the 5th Day”. Send money. And rebels.
In any case, we thought you might like this. Ever since he was little, artist Chepo Peña has been a fan of Star Wars. He grew up playing Lotería which is a Mexican game of chance using a special deck of 54 cards, each possessing a special image and number.
Peña has mashed two of his favourite things together to create a new set of Lotería cards that where he replaced the traditional elements with characters from the Star Wars saga. For example in the La Luna card the moon is now the Death Star, or with card #9, El Barril, the barrel is now depicted by Artoo (poor little guy). Have a look at some of Peña’s Lotería cards after the jump.
3 – La dama (The lady)
I read online about using the Mexican Loteria cards for readings and so I have been working with them like that for about a year. I've started making a list of my own card 'meanings' based on the picture on the card and the riddle that I am aware of that goes with it.
- La toxica chilindrina t-shirt/ Latina/Mexican Loteria/Card/ Funny sayings in spanish/ Latina Gifts/ Mexican Humor/El Chavo Del Ocho CHICCreationsByEV 5 out of 5 stars (486).
- The “El Cazo” card, typically depicted as a bowl or saucepan, stumped him at first. Finally, he landed on turning it into a margarita, naming the card “La Coping Mechanism.”.
6 – La sirena (The mermaid)
9 – El barril (The barrel)
12 – El valiente (The Brave One)
14 – La muerte (The Death)
20 – El pájaro (The Bird)
21 – La mano (The hand)
22 – La bota (The boot)
23 – La luna (The moon)
27 – El corazón (The heart)
30 – El camarón (The shrimp)
33 – La araña (The spider)
37 – El mundo (The world)
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38 – El apache (The spache)
42 – La calavera (The skull)
Nice choice of visual puns, no? Peña wants to create the full set of Star Wars-inspired Lotería cards. He has 16 more to do. Have a look at his current collection at chepo.net.
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Mexican Bingo Cards Printable
What is the Mexican bingo called?
Bingo games that are famous throughout the world turned out to have different names in certain countries. Let's take an example from Mexico. This country has a unique name on bingo, Loteria. The word Loteria is a Mexican word that means lottery. What makes it interesting about this Loteria game is that although it is a bingo game, the card used is very unique and different from the bingo cards that we know.
Are Loteria cards Tarot cards?
Loteria cards are cards that consist of pictures and also numbers. But the numbers are often not used as in the commonly known bingo cards. Loteria cards are more focused on the pictures that are on the card. Loteria cards consist of interesting pictures. Because the beginning of the maker of Loteria cards was an artist and this game was once a game played by people who are respected. Some images on Loteria cards have similarities to tarot cards such as sun, moon, star, angel, and devil. But Loteria cards cannot be used as tarot cards because of a few cards, right? Tarot cards have more detail than Loteria, even though they have several of the same card names.
How do you make a Mexican bingo card?
To be able to make interesting Mexican bingo cards, you need to know what images are on each card. The number of cards that Mexican bingo cards have is 54 cards. So you have to complete all 54 images. You can make it by searching for templates or printables from Mexican bingo cards provided on the internet. Usually, the template and the printable all the cards have become one package, so you do not need to search for images on the card one by one. After that, you just need to print and cut it to the size of the Mexican bingo cards.
How many people can play Loteria at once?
As with every game, there are a number of players who are concerned when playing it. If it consists of too many players, it will be difficult to solve it. And if it consists of too few players, the game becomes unpleasant. Loteria, also known as Mexican bingo cards also has a limit on the number of players. In one game, Loteria can be played by a maximum of 10 people. If you and your friends consist of more than 10 players, you can take turns playing each other by playing more than one round. Sounds fair, right.
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