# Baloot Goes Digital: Building Saudi Arabia's Card Game with a Real RL-Trained AI

> Source: <https://dev.to/khalid_ali_77fe2769690065/baloot-goes-digital-building-saudi-arabias-card-game-with-a-real-rl-trained-ai-1gbi>
> Published: 2026-08-18 12:33:07+00:00

Baloot is Saudi Arabia's national card game — 32 cards, 4 players, 2 teams, and a bidding system (Sun / Hokm) that rewards reading your opponents.

Most Baloot apps are either stuffed with ads or built around buying coins. **Arb'a Baloot** takes the opposite approach: completely free, no ads, no in-app purchases.

Instead of hard-coded rules, the AI opponent was trained with **reinforcement learning** over millions of self-play rounds — the same family of techniques behind AlphaGo. It bids Sun or Hokm like a strong human, counts cards, punishes mistakes, and works fully offline.