Mexican Lottery on NFT First Edition

Welcome to the First Edition of Mexican Lottery Board Game NFT!

Lotería (Spanish word meaning “lottery”) is a traditional game of chance, similar to bingo, but using images on a deck of cards instead of numbered ping pong balls. Every image has a name and an assigned number, but the number is usually ignored. Each player has at least one tabla, a board with a randomly created 4 x 4 grid of pictures with their corresponding name and number. Players choose a tabla to play with, from a variety of previously created tablas, each with a different selection of images.

The traditional Lotería card deck is composed of a set of 54 different cards, each with a different picture. To start the game, the caller (cantor, Spanish for “singer”) shuffles the deck. One by one, the caller picks a card from the deck and announces it to the players by its name, sometimes using a verse before reading the card name. Each player locates the matching pictogram of the card just announced on their board and marks it off with a chip or other kind of marker. In Mexico, it is traditional to use small rocks, crown corks or pinto beans as markers. The winner is the first player that shouts “¡Buena!” or “¡Lotería!” right after completing a tabla or a previous agreed pattern: row, column, diagonal, or a pozo. Read the full definition on Wikipedia.

Lotería NFT edition will create each card and board as NFT collectible items which you can acquire and collect according to their edition

Basic Rules

• There are: 54 figures (cards) based on the original Mexican Lottery board game (minted uniquely as NFT items)
• The game starts with 4 boards (minted as NFT items). To mint additional boards the community can vote at the end of this post
• Each board will have 16 random figures from the 54 original collection. Each board has a unique combination of figures

Gaming Boards

Grab one of the following boards to get in the game, you can find them on OpenSea gas free:

Drafted Cards

The current collection (Pyxel) are created as NFT items, get them from OpenSea and win the game!

Mechanics of the Game

1. Inception of a new edition (includes an updated design)
2. Release of a collection of 4 gaming boards, each minted uniquely as NFT item. To get into the game you can buy one of them
3. Release of a random card (minted as NFT item)
4. Is there a winning board (Lotería!)?
   • No: Go back to step 3
   • Yes: Mint a winner edition card for the current edition containing the list of cards and the unique code of the winning board
5. Remaining cards will be posted on the NFT collection
6. You can be considered winner if you hold:
   • 16 cards with figures
   • The board containing the 16 figures from previous step
   • The winner edition card
   • All of the cards, the board, the winner edition card match the same release (currently first edition)
   • Congratulations! You’re a winner of this release edition of the Mexican Lottery Game
7. You can become a winner after the game is over if you get ahold of all of the items on step 7 except the winner edition card by buying them. Once containing a winning combination you can ping us to mint a new winner card with your combination set. Winner cards will be released in the requested order and will have a counter of the winner
8. If the current release was successful expect an upcoming release with updated theme and design!

Random Selection and Generation Code

In order to ensure transparency we have made the source code for the random card drawing and the source code for the random board generation available publicly. If you are interesting in knowing the technical details for generating a random board and getting random cards you can find the code in the PowerShell module: Loteria hosted in GitHub. It contains the cmdlets for each operation as well as a way to simulate a game from beginning to end

Design of Lottery Cards

Each card contains a unique design based on the original Mexican Lottery board game with a specific edition theme, a framing that commemorate its edition and a unique number associated to it. Each card also has a unique code accessible to the owner that identifies the card, this unique code is separate from the NFT item token ID when it is minted. See the image below for details of the card design

Design of the Gaming Board

Boards are designed with 16 cards inside (4x4 arrangement) according to the original design of the Mexican Lottery board game, the figures will match those of the released cards for easy identification. The board has a commemorative framing for its released edition. Each board has a unique code separate from the NFT token ID in addition to 16 codes that correspond to the card figures it contains, those are viewable by the owner of the card. See the image below for details of the card design

Design of the Winning Card

The winning card, also known as the thophy card tells essentially that you’ve won the game. There are two types of throphy cards, the first is emitted naturally when the game ends by having a board with the combination of the released set of cards, this throphy card will contains the “Winner” designation in addition to its regular attributes. Whenever a new owner acquires 16 cards and a matching board (all matching the same edition), this owner can now request to mint a new throphy card, this trophy card will be issued with the designation “### Winner” in addition to its regular attributes. All throphy cards will contain the edition it belongs to and the codes of the winning combination. You can the the proud winner if you have 16 cards, its matching board, and the throphy card that proves you’ve won. The design of this card will be reserved for whenever a winner has been declared

Minting more Boards

If the demand for the game is strong is natural for more users to be wanting to play the game, in order to address potential demand we’ve created the following form for the community to let us know of this, based on the responses on this form we will mint more boards according to these rules:

• After 100 requests additional 4 boards will be minted and you will be able to buy one
• If a minted board wins the game the game will end declaring the winner
• In order to mint 4 additional boards the number of responses has to increase to n = n * 2 where n is the current limit e.g. 100, 200, 400, 800, etc.

Current limit of votes to mint more boards: 100