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Gritolina Lotería Card Template

by ShuffleKit

A lotería card template with 54 picture cards and 20 boards, a Mexican lotería of our own that prints on Letter or A4 and plays tonight. Each card is poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 inches, nine to a sheet, with its number in a dark disc, its picture in a rounded window and its name underneath, under a string of papel picado flags on a rosa mexicano border. The 54 are new: El Ajolote, El Colibrí, El Tlacuache, El Elote, La Piñata, El Volcán and 48 more, none of them a card from the traditional deck. The names stay in Spanish, as a lotería's do, and every one is text you can change. Each board (tabla) is 8 × 8 inches, a 4 × 4 grid of 16 different cards, and no two boards are alike. Every card is a row in the sheet with its name, number and picture, so you can make custom lotería cards from your own photos, and every board square is a picture and a name you can swap. The cards have a back for shuffling face down.

Cards

Designs
2
Sample cards
54
Card size
Poker — 2.5 × 3.5 in
63.5 × 88.9 mm · 750 × 1050 px at 300 DPI
Card fields
  • Name
  • Number
  • Picture

Boards

Designs
1
Sample boards
20
Board size
Square Board — 8 × 8 in
203.2 × 203.2 mm · 2400 × 2400 px at 300 DPI
Board fields
  • Board
  • Picture 1
  • Card 1
  • Picture 2
  • Card 2
  • Picture 3
  • Card 3
  • Picture 4
  • Card 4
  • Picture 5
  • Card 5
  • Picture 6
  • Card 6
  • Picture 7
  • Card 7
  • Picture 8
  • Card 8
  • Picture 9
  • Card 9
  • Picture 10
  • Card 10
  • Picture 11
  • Card 11
  • Picture 12
  • Card 12
  • Picture 13
  • Card 13
  • Picture 14
  • Card 14
  • Picture 15
  • Card 15
  • Picture 16
  • Card 16
Use this template free

Adding a template copies its two card designs, one board design, their fields, 54 sample cards and 20 sample boards into one project of your own, in one go. Your copy is yours, and later changes by the author never touch it.

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Also in: Español

What’s in Gritolina Lotería Card Template

Cards

Two card designs, poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 in: Lotería Card and Card Back.

The cards live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Name, Number and Picture. 54 rows arrive filled in as sample cards.

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Boards

One board design, square board size, 8 × 8 in: Lotería Board (Tabla).

The boards live in a sheet of their own, one row each, with a column for every field their designs read: Board, Picture 1, Card 1, Picture 2, Card 2, Picture 3, Card 3, Picture 4, Card 4, Picture 5, Card 5, Picture 6, Card 6, Picture 7, Card 7, Picture 8, Card 8, Picture 9, Card 9, Picture 10, Card 10, Picture 11, Card 11, Picture 12, Card 12, Picture 13, Card 13, Picture 14, Card 14, Picture 15, Card 15, Picture 16 and Card 16. 20 rows arrive filled in as sample boards.

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Read the 54 sample cards
NameNumber
El Ajolote1
La Piñata2
El Elote3
El Colibrí4
El Volcán5
El Trompo6
La Concha7
El Jaguar8
El Papalote9
La Tortuga10
El Aguacate11
El Farol12
La Mariposa13
El Chile14
La Guitarra15
El Tecolote16
La Nube17
El Molcajete18
El Armadillo19
La Paleta20
El Balero21
El Tucán22
El Arcoíris23
La Olla24
El Burro25
El Tamal26
La Llave27
La Abeja28
El Rayo29
Las Maracas30
El Tlacuache31
La Piña32
El Cohete33
La Ballena34
El Mango35
La Canica36
El Xolo37
El Girasol38
La Vela39
El Pulpo40
El Taco41
El Reloj42
La Iguana43
La Calabaza44
La Bicicleta45
El Caracol46
El Yoyo47
El Flamenco48
El Churro49
El Tren50
El Conejo51
La Taza52
El Globo53
El Limón54

How to play lotería

Two to twenty players and a caller. Each player needs a board and a handful of beans or pebbles to mark it.

  1. Cut out the cards and give every player a board (a tabla) and a handful of beans or pebbles to mark it with. The caller keeps the 54 cards, shuffled and face down.
  2. Before you start, agree on the pattern that wins: a line of four pictures across, down or diagonally, the four corners, the four in the middle, or a full board.
  3. The caller turns the cards over one at a time and calls out each name. Callers often say a short rhyme or riddle first and let the players guess.
  4. If the card called is on your board, put a bean on that picture. Called cards go in a face-up pile.
  5. The first player to finish the pattern shouts “Lotería!”. The caller checks their pictures against the called pile, and if they all match, that player wins. Clear the boards and shuffle for the next round.

Printing the cards and boards

Cards: Poker, 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a card goes out as 825 × 1125.

Boards: Square Board, 8 × 8 in, 203.2 × 203.2 mm, 2400 × 2400 pixels at 300 DPI. With an eighth of an inch of bleed on every edge, a board goes out as 2475 × 2475.

On the Hobby plan, export a print-ready PDF with bleed and cut lines, each part at its own size. PNG and SVG come out at the same sizes, which is what Tabletop Simulator wants. On Indie, send the game to a print-on-demand partner through Print & Ship. The export adds the bleed: let the artwork run into it and keep the text inside the cut line.

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Questions about Gritolina Lotería Card Template

Everything you need to know before getting started.

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Can I make custom lotería cards with my own photos?

Yes. Every card is a row in the sheet with its Name, Number and Picture, so you can swap a picture for a photo and a name for anything you like: the family, the guests at a baby shower, the couple at a bridal shower. Each board keeps its own pictures, so when you change a card, change it on the boards that show it too.

Is this the Don Clemente lotería?

No. The deck is new, drawn for this template: 54 cards with names and pictures of their own, from El Ajolote to El Limón. None of them is a card from the traditional deck, whose pictures belong to its publisher. It plays the same way, with a caller and a board for each player.

How do I make my own lotería boards?

In the sheet each board is one row, and each of its 16 squares is two columns, a picture and a card name, from Picture 1 and Card 1 to Picture 16 and Card 16. Once your cards are in, open the boards and click Deal boards: every board gets a random mix of your cards, none twice on a board and no two boards alike. Duplicate a board first for more than 20 players, and deal again whenever you change the cards. You can still change a single square by hand, by pasting in a picture and typing its name.

What happens when I add Gritolina Lotería Card Template to a project?

The two card designs, one board design, their fields, 54 sample cards and 20 sample boards are copied into one project of yours, with the fields already pointed at the designs: the cards under All cards and the boards in a collection of their own. Nothing stays linked to this page afterwards, so the author's later edits never reach your copy.

What size does Gritolina Lotería Card Template print at?

The cards are Poker size, 2.5 × 3.5 in, 63.5 × 88.9 mm, 750 × 1050 pixels at 300 DPI. The boards are Square Board size, 8 × 8 in, 203.2 × 203.2 mm, 2400 × 2400 pixels at 300 DPI. Those are the numbers to hand a print shop, and each part exports at its own size.

Is Gritolina Lotería Card Template free?

Yes. Adding it, editing it, filling it with your own cards and playtesting it online are all free. Exporting print files starts on the Hobby plan, and Print & Ship through The Game Crafter is on Indie. No template sits behind a paid plan.

Can I change the designs?

Yes. They land in your project as ordinary layouts, so you can drag an element somewhere else, put your own art behind the frame, restyle the type or rename a field. Edit a design once and every card or board drawn on it follows.

Can I use my own cards and boards instead of the samples?

Yes. The cards and the boards each have a sheet, and the samples are rows in them, there to be overwritten. Type over them, add rows of your own, or bring a CSV and match its headers to the fields.

Can I sell a game made with Gritolina Lotería Card Template?

Yes. This one is ours, and you keep commercial rights to what you build from it, crowdfunding and retail included.

Ready to make your own lotería cards?

This template is free, and so is the editor it opens in.