(pieces clattering)
- [Jasmine] Wow!
- Which is...
We literally just did three cards
and this is what he did.
- [Sean's Roommate] I'm three for three.
- Hi guys, I'm Sean.
- Hi, I'm Carolina.
- Today we'll be swapping our favorite
childhood board games.
(doorbell ringing)
- So, the game Go is such a classic.
Like, you see it in every manga,
in every anime, in every movie
and it really tests your wits
and it really tests, whether you're young or old,
it's all about strategy, who can control the territory.
And it really proves to the world
how smart, how intelligent, how strategic you can be.
- So Sean, I chose the game Loteria for you
because it's a fun, easy game, very simple to play
I think you'll very much enjoy it.
To me, Loteria brings back a lot of family memories.
We play this at every get together.
I actually have mine right here.
Cause you always have to have one handy
you never know when you can play.
And for tokens I have a bag of frijoles, beans, here
that I usually play with, but I've literally,
the fun thing about Loteria is
you can use anything as tokens.
I sometimes played with even shots of tequila.
- Okay, so I'm super excited!
I got Loteria right over here.
Ya boy doesn't know how to play this game.
Not even close.
(scoffs)
Ya boy needs to do some research
so gimme one second because
I've never heard of this at all.
(typing)
Loteria is basically like a Mexican bingo.
I kind of play bingo before.
You know, growing up as an Asian-American
I've played bingo.
Oh! Before hand, let's open up
(scoffs)
this bag because
I wanna see like the cards and everything inside.
Inside there is the cards
that you pick and you say like 'el gallo',
which is 'rooster'.
And then you also have these tokens.
These tokens are kind of used to
mark, you know, where whatever you get.
So, like if someone said 'el sol'
I'll be like, cool, put a token on el sol
whatever.
Fun fact, I wanna see if my roommate can do this
and pronounce all these words.
I don't know if he knows Spanish.
He's either gonna be like,
astounding and amazing and I'm gonna be shook
or he's gonna be horrible and I'm gonna be like,
you know what, same, it's all good bro.
We're in this together.
- Oh, okay!
How cute is this?
So from the looks of it, it looks like
it's a Chinese like checkers kinda thing
or like, chess.
So, this is what the board looks like.
It's very like, very fancy.
Ooh!
Minimalist.
(rattling of pieces)
So, it's a two player game.
Strategically place pieces on different points
on the board where the lines intersect
to create territories by surrounding
vacant points or the opponents pieces.
(record scratch)
Alrighty, I'm gonna have to read that again
cause I don't know what that means.
(squealing)
I think in Spanish, so a lot of this
is going in through my head and going
no hablo ingles, you know what I mean?
I have to see also if my roommate wants to play with me.
Jasmine!
Do you wanna play this game with me?
It's, it's like checkers?
Sounds good.
(laughing)
I'm with my roommate right now.
So, I'm excited.
He's Korean-American,
he doesn't want his face to be shown,
but he's really cute, but he's also married,
so y'all can't date him.
Sorry, not sorry.
Anyway, we have these cards already shuffled.
So, please choose a card, any card.
- [Sean's Roommate] Okay.
- Tanks
Kay, this is our bingo, this is Loteria.
So, I mean, what's your Spanish level
on a one to ten what would you give yourself?
- [Sean's Roommate] Very basic
(laughing)
- Very basic?
That is fine cause me too.
Oh! I have to give you these things as well.
What color do you want?
Do you want yellow?
Or actually, you know what,
we'll just be the rainbow.
So here, here's just a bunch of stuff.
- [Sean's Roommate] All right.
- Also, just to show y'all.
I'm messy, like this,
this is my mess of a thing.
His is super like, clean and organized
like this.
- Alrighty.
We're gonna attempt this.
I'm the white stone.
She's the black stone.
Do we know what we're doing?
Absolutely not!
But, we're gonna give this a go.
All right, I'm just gonna go here then.
Okay.
Well, then I'm just gonna keep going.
Yeah!
- You got two, I got zero, okay.
My turn!
I have this one.
Which is
la paraguas.
- [Sean's Roommate] La paraguas, yes.
(laughing)
- Are you serious?
We literally just did three cards
and this is what he did.
Pick a card, go.
- [Sean's Rooommate] All right, here we go.
Do you have el catrin?
- [Sean] El catrin?
Yes I do, finally!
- [Sean's Roommate] Nice.
- [Sean] Ya boy got one.
Kay, my turn.
Imma pick this--
- [Sean's Roommate] Just gimme a el nopal
- [Sean] Cool!
Do you have la dama?
El venado?
El valiente, which is the valiant.
Work.
- [Sean's Roommate] Oh, looks like you won.
- [Sean] Did I win?
- [Sean's Roommate] Yeah, el diablito.
[Sean] Wait, did I actually?
Oh my god, I did win!
Well, that was easy.
(phone ringing)
Okay, so guess who called me.
She got questions, Carolina got questions!
(laughing)
- I don't know, we don't know how to play
(laughing) that's the question!
I watched like two tutorials
and I'm like, yee
- Okay, so like, lemme help break it down for you like--
(sped up voice squeaking)
The objective is to literally have more stones
on the board than your opponent.
That's it.
- Oh, okay!
Well, I can do that.
Thank you Sean!
- No worries!
- We figured it out.
Now we're just gonna go round two.
Let's try this again.
Just put your stones down I guess.
- [Jasmine] Yep, nine by nine, here we go.
I'm gonna go right here.
- I'm gonna, right here buddy.
- [Jasmine] Love it.
- Wow.
(sped up voice squeaking)
- [Jasmine] Bam, I get him!
- (gasping) I didn't even see that!
- [Jasmine] Got'em!
(speed up voice squeaking)
- [Jasmine] 47, 48.
- Okay, I have (begins counting)
46.
How many do you have?
- [Jasmine] 48.
- I had 46 and I had three spaces open!
(gasping) I would've won!
(pieces clattering)
- [Jasmine] Wow.
- Okay, so I'm done and it was actually
a really really really fun game.
I had a blast with my roommate.
But I definitely think it's a great game.
Really great family game,
especially when there's like multiple people.
Kids can play it, adults can play it,
elderly people can play it.
It's a great game just to bring people together.
This experience definitely let me
be able to kind of like, embrace more of the
latinx heritage that I A: didn't know about
and B: would love to know more about.
- So, I just finished playing the game
with my roommate.
And oh boy, that was very difficult!
I think I was going at the game differently
I thought it was just like, try to capture
all of the opponents stones.
But then, after talking to Sean and like,
when he literally told me the objective of the game
is just put all of your stones on the board
it made it so much easier.
I wanna get to be able to play
this whole thing instead of just
a nine by nine square.
I actually wanna play this with Sean also.
So maybe when we're allowed to go
back into the studio, you and me baby.
Let's play.
(music)