Many years ago and in various parts of Colombia, it was a child's play in which we gave the different wrappers of cigarettes the shape of a ticket, we gave them values. With them we made many other games simulating business or to pay bets, in games such as: Vuelta a Colombia (with soda caps), street (with spins), wheel (competitions with hoops), etc. In my personal life it was very important, because they were my first opportunities to do mathematical calculations and to learn to love numbers and do calculations.
BILLUSO in Ecuador: in the 50s and 60s children played with play money to pay the bets of their various games. This money was made with the unfolded packs of cigarettes, which at that time were 100% pleated paper, folded and glued, because the cardboard boxes were not yet known. It did not matter whether they were nationals or foreigners, but the value that the brand had in the market. Very valuable were the Chesterfield, King, Camel, Lucky Strike, Full and others. An additional entertainment and challenge was to get adults and cigarette vendors these wrappers. Then billusos appeared in the wrappers of the candies with values of 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 sucres, which ended up destroying the charm of the billusos.
