Why Does Google Have The Lottery Doodle?

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Today's interactive Doodle celebrates the traditional Mexican board game, lottery!

Google partnered with five Mexican and Mexican American illustrators to reinvent the iconic art of the Doodle lottery game, as well as create new cards. In addition, they collaborated with the popular Mexican YouTuber Luisito Comunica, who participated as an announcer of the cards for the Doodle.

Even though it has changed a lot since it was officially protected by copyright in Mexico this day 106 years ago, the lottery is still a very popular game in Mexico and with Latino communities, either as a tool to teach the language. Spanish or to spend a night playing with the family.

Originally from Italy in the 15th century, the lottery first moved to Spain before arriving in Mexico in 1769. The rules are similar to bingo in that players mark spaces on a table or board with a chip (traditionally with a bean) and they try to fill it before the rest of the players. However, instead of listening to "N-44," a designated card announcer randomly draws out colorful illustrated cards, such as "The Moon" or "The Tree," and improvises poetic descriptions that match the spaces on the boards.. A cry of "lottery!" declares victory, ending the game.

The characters and objects on the cards have been updated numerous times to reflect the social norms of the time. One of the best-known versions was created in Mexico by the French Clemente Jacques in 1887. The edition of “Don Clemente Gallo”, copyrighted in 1913, features images that have become a form of folk art synonymous with lottery..

Today, the iconic images of the lottery and the shared experience that it fosters among people of different generations has become a source of pride and celebration for Mexican culture. Whether you play with your family or a new friend around the world.