Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Many Faces of Alejandro

After a dinner of "chiles en nogada" at the "El Cardenal" restaurant in the Hilton Hotel, as we passed through the lobby, we noticed that they had set of a series of boards with holes for the face.  We couldn't resist taking photos.

Here Alejandro is a Mexican guitarist in a broad sombrero.



The rest of the cut-outs were derived from the traditional Mexican game of "loterĂ­a".  The game is similar to bingo, but the players' boards have sixteen pictures of objects and people instead of numbers.  The caller shuffles a deck of 54 picture cards, and then draws out cards and calls out the name of the picture.  The first player to fill in a pattern on the board wins.


"El Valiente" - The Brave Man



"El Diablito" - The Little Devil



"La Sirena" - The Mermaid



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