PlayLotería.Online

The Problem: During the pandemic, I wanted to play Lotería over Zoom. Every version I tried removed the parts that make the game fun.

The Big Idea: Why not make my own, with all the authentic chaos of the real thing. Now it’s used by friends, schools, and businesses around the world.

Web App

For the uninitiated, Lotería is like bingo. Instead of random numbers, cards with different images are drawn from a deck. If one of your spaces match, you get to mark it, traditionally with a pinto bean.

A desktop mockup of the game. The player has several beans placed on their board. The current card is La Rosa and there are four other people playing.

The two biggest features other online versions were missing were

  • Picking your own board (people are really superstitious about which boards they use)
  • Controlling how fast cards are drawn
A mobile mock-up of the game. You can see several options the host has for setting up their game.