Adrián Muñoz

I’m Adrián Muñoz, from Granada in Andalusia, and I’m the person behind Lascuarenta.es (The Forty), working on it around my day job. Building websites isn’t my profession, but this project matters to me because it brings together two things I enjoy: learning to make something myself and giving traditional card games a place of their own.

I taught myself programming and databases, then built this website little by little as I learned. It didn’t happen overnight: many hours have gone into it, and improving it still teaches me new things. It’s a hobby, but I take it seriously—I want it to work well and to be somewhere you enjoy playing.

To me, a game of cards is also a reason to spend some time together, chat and share a table. That way of looking at games owes a lot to my home, Andalusia, and it’s something I’d like to keep here. Lascuarenta.es (The Forty) began with the wish to keep playing with friends who live far away, and to let you do the same with yours, without distance getting in the way.

I also want these games to keep their place, and people who don’t know them yet to feel welcome to learn. Rules aren’t quite the same everywhere, so if something seems wrong or your town plays differently, let me know. Those differences deserve a place here too: they’re part of what keeps this tradition alive.