bolita
noun
bo·li·ta
bəˈlētə,
bōˈ-
variants or less commonly bolito
-ēt(ˌ)ō
plural -s
1
: a game of chance having the character of a lottery in which a bag of small numbered balls is tossed about until only one remains or until one is grasped at random, the ball so selected being considered as bearing the winning number
2
: a numbers game in which one attempts to guess a variously determined 2-digit number
Word History
Etymology
American Spanish (Cuba) bolita, from Spanish, little ball, diminutive of bola ball