Patolli — Mesoamerican History — Patolli — Mesoamerican History

Patolli appears in early colonial descriptions and Indigenous pictorial sources as a Mesoamerican race-and-wagering game, but conquest disrupted the practice and surviving evidence does not authorize a single definitive modern ruleset.

It belongs here as historical game culture, not as a claim of unchanged continuity. Museum interpretation can explain evidence; commercial reconstructions should clearly identify speculation and avoid copying codex imagery as decoration.