About Baloot
Baloot (بلوت) is the favourite card game of Saudi Arabia and is played all over the Gulf. Four players in two teams use 32 cards, from 7 to Ace, and play goes anticlockwise. You sit opposite your partner Noura, and Faisal and Hamad play against you. Everyone gets five cards and one card is turned face up for the bidding.
In Sun there are no trumps and the cards go A, 10, K, Q, J, 9, 8, 7. In Hokum the face-up card's suit (or another suit in the second round) is trumps, and the Jack and 9 of trumps are the strongest cards in the game. Sun beats Hokum in the bidding, and Ashkal lets your partner play a Sun for you. In Hokum you must trump when you cannot follow suit, and beat a winning trump if you can.
Before play, the game finds every player's projects: Sira (three in a row), Fifty, Hundred and Four Hundred, plus Baloot, the King and Queen of trumps. The team that bid must score more than the other team or lose everything. Four short lessons teach tricks, Sun, Hokum, projects and scoring, and every hand your team wins opens new card backs and tables.
Best for ages 9+
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