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An illustration of the stairs leading up to the AQ at SFU Burnaby.
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Lotería: SFU edition

Peak Web April 4, 2025

By: Daniel Salcedo Rubio, Features Editor SFU’s new pre-convocation event was honestly . . . not bad. There were the usual finger food and photo booth with the typical cardboard cutouts, as well as a couple of SFU-inspired board games, including my childhood favourite, Lotería. The game, a classic in connecting Mexican communities, is super simple. Just like in bingo, someone will call a card — they aren’t allowed to repeat it though, so you have to pay attention — and if you have it on your board, you place a coin to mark it. Once your board is full,…

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Photo of someone about to flick a carrom piece across the game board.
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The table-top game of Carrom

Sports April 3, 2022

By: Vanshita Sethi, SFU Student  A carrom board can often be found in a dusty, old corner in Indian households waiting to be pulled out on special family occasions. Some historians believe the game to have first been enjoyed leisurely…

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