Whoever finds the muñeco
owes the tamales. Prove it.
The sixth of January is the day the children have been waiting for and the day the adults settle a debt. The night before, shoes go by the window or the balcony with a letter to Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar and something for the camels, and in Spain the whole town lines the street for the cabalgata. In the morning there are presents, and later the rosca, or the roscón, cut at a table full of cousins with chocolate caliente. Somebody bites into the muñeco, and in Mexico that means tamales for everyone on Candelaria; in Spain the haba means paying for next year's roscón. The evidence of who got it is on somebody's phone, every year, and it is never the same phone. One QR code at the table settles the argument.
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The moments guests actually photograph at Día de Reyes gatherings
Why Día de Reyes gatherings work better on Picsui
Written for the person hosting this one, and checked against what the product actually does.
The bite that costs someone the tamales
The rosca is cut slice by slice and every person in the room is watching everyone else's mouth. Short video clips from three or four phones catch the moment the muñeco appears, uploaded at the table, so when the Candelaria debt is disputed on the second of February the gallery has the proof in the finder's own hand.
A written record of the year's Reyes
Turn on the written guestbook with a question like who found the muñeco, or what each child asked the Reyes for, and the family types the answers between slices. A year later the gallery reads like a ledger of the family's Januaries, with the tamales debt and the wish lists kept alongside the photos.
The morning replays while the rosca is cut
The shoes were photographed at dawn by whichever parent woke first, and the cabalgata the night before by whoever had the best spot on the barrier. Put the slideshow on the TV in the afternoon and those uploads play back while the cousins eat, so the whole family sees a morning most of them slept through.
No app. No account. One scan.
Guests point their camera at a QR code and are uploading in seconds. Nobody installs anything, nobody creates a login, and the grandparents can do it as easily as the teenagers.
unlimited photo and video uploads
Every guest can send as much as they like: phone photos, iPhone HEICs, short videos, up to a fair-use bound of 25 GB per event. Originals are kept at full resolution.
Video messages, recorded on the spot
A 30-second video toast recorded in the browser, no editing, no re-uploading. The guest who would never write in a book will happily talk to a phone.
A guestbook with your own question
Replace the generic prompt with one that fits the day. Written messages are collected alongside the photos and kept with the gallery.
Live photo wall on any screen
Open the slideshow on a TV, projector or laptop and new uploads appear as they arrive. Grid and collage layouts, transition presets, and a phone remote to control it from across the room.
Full-resolution downloads
Download any photo, or the whole event as one archive, at original quality. What guests uploaded is what you keep — no compression, no watermark on paid events.
How it works
Set up in a minute. Collect for the whole event.
Create the event in the first days of January and send the link in the family group on the fifth, so the cabalgata and the shoes by the window are uploaded before anyone sits down.
Print the code on a card and stand it against the rosca, where every phone will already be pointing when the first slice is cut.
Family uploads clips of each bite. Turn on the guestbook so whoever finds the muñeco is written down, and put the slideshow on the TV with the morning's photos.
Download the originals and send the gallery link round the same evening, along with the date of the tamales on Candelaria.
Try uploading as a guest.
Scan this with your phone the way a guest at your event would. Choose a sample photo and upload it from your browser, then open the demo gallery to see it land. Photos pass a quick AI check first; videos wait for a person.
- Scan the code with your phone camera — it opens straight in the browser.
- Upload a sample photo. Look for the upload confirmation so you know it reached the host.
Use a sample you are comfortable sharing with Picsui. Please keep personal or sensitive photos out of the demo.
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This is the same kind of code your guests scan at your event.
Getting the most from Día de Reyes gatherings
Upload the shoes before the children wake up. The best Reyes photo of the year is the one nobody else can take: the shoes by the window at six in the morning with the letter, the half-eaten turrón left for the Kings, the water bowl for the camels, and the presents beside them. Whoever is awake first scans the code and uploads it then, before the room is torn apart. If the family went to the cabalgata the night before, ask for those uploads in the group the same night, while the caramelos are still being counted, because by the afternoon the parade will have been forgotten in favour of the rosca.
Make the muñeco a video job and give it to a teenager. Ask them to film each person's first bite in a short clip and upload it straight away, rather than one long recording of the whole rosca. The clip that catches the small figure being pulled out of somebody's slice is the one the family replays every year and the one that decides who hosts the tamales on the second of February. Pair it with the written guestbook and a single question, who owes the tamales this year, so the answer is typed and dated next to the video and there is no arguing on Candelaria.
If the family is split between Spain and Latin America, remember that the roscón in Madrid is cut at breakfast on the sixth and the rosca in Mexico City often in the evening, so one side of the family will always be uploading while the other is asleep. The gallery link works whenever each side gets to it, so send it in the group on the fifth and let the day fill in across the time zones. By the evening of the sixth the gallery holds both tables, both muñecos and two different people who owe tamales.
Common questions about Día de Reyes gatherings
Can we keep the cabalgata and the rosca in one gallery?
Yes. Create the event before the fifth and share the link that evening, and the parade photos from the barrier go in first, followed by the shoes the next morning and the rosca in the afternoon. If you want the days kept apart, add the cabalgata and the rosca as sub-events under the same code; otherwise a single gallery in time order reads perfectly well. Either way one Event Pass covers the whole of Reyes, with unlimited uploads from every relative.
The children are small. How do we get the photos of them without a stranger seeing them?
The gallery is private and only reachable through the code or the link you hand out. It is never listed publicly and is blocked from search engines and AI crawlers. If you want to approve each photo before the wider family sees it, turn on host review and uploads wait in your queue. Full-resolution originals stay downloadable for you, and you can close the gallery to new uploads once the tamales are eaten on Candelaria and keep the archive private after that.
Can the grandparents in Spain watch us cut the rosca?
Yes. Live Broadcast is included with the Event Pass, streams up to 90 minutes with sound on a private link to as many as 100 viewers, and opens in any phone browser. It is long enough for the cutting of the rosca and the argument that follows. Given the time difference, send the link with your local hour translated to theirs, and start the stream just before the first slice so they hear the shouting when the muñeco turns up.
Does the finder of the muñeco really have to host the tamales?
In Mexico, yes, on the second of February, Día de la Candelaria, when the Niño Dios is dressed and taken to be blessed and the finder feeds everyone. In Spain the roscón usually holds a figurita, which wins the paper crown, and a haba, which means paying for next year's roscón. The gallery does not adjudicate, but a short clip of the bite and a typed guestbook entry beside it remove most of the doubt. Many families add Candelaria as a sub-event so the tamales are in the same gallery.
What does one Reyes afternoon cost?
An Event Pass is $29, paid once for the event, and covers unlimited uploads, short video clips, the written guestbook, host review, full-resolution downloads and 365 days of hosting. Live Broadcast for the family abroad is included at no extra charge. There is no subscription, and next January you simply create a new event so each year's rosca has its own gallery and its own record of who owed the tamales.
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