MEXICO CITY (AP) — On a Sunday afternoon in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood, Rosa María Espinosa joins nearly 80 men under a park pavilion to play poleana, a board game requiring mental dexterity that was born in the city’s prisons nearly a century ago.
Espinosa blows smoke rings with her cigarette and laughs with the others. Today she will be the only woman playing.
Though the game’s origins still carry a stigma, it is having a moment as people from diverse backgrounds discover its appeal.
“It’s a lot of adrenaline,” said Espinosa. “But sometimes the dice aren’t lucky.”
A player moves his piece in poleana, a board game invented
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