Loteria is a Bingo-like game played in Mexico and Texas. The game boards have rows of little pictures of things like the sun or a fish rather than numbers as in Bingo. The caller reads riddles found on the backs of picture playing cards describing a picture so the players have to figure out which picture is being called .

The third graders used the artwork of Carmen Lomas Garza, made available to them on-line via the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, as inspiration for their Loteria Card designs. Carmen Lomas Garza created her own Loteria gameboards in memory of the games she played with her family and neighbors as a child. Check out the NMAA's homepage and the on-line magazine "Del Corazon" for the accompanying lesson-plan and additional student examples.