Baloot (Arabic: بلوت, romanized: balūt), is a popular trick card game played in the Arabian Peninsula, which is similar to the French game Belote.

[citation needed] There are two contracts: Hokum and Sun (from the French sans).

The first dealer is chosen at random and after each hand the turn to deal passes to the right.

The cards are shuffled by the dealer, and cut by the player on the left.

"Ashkal", it is said when a player doesn't want the public card, but wants it for their teammate, just to receive 3 cards instead of 2. note: only the dealer and the player to the left of the dealer have the right to call Ashkal.

If the card was an ace, the player has no right to say Ashkal, if they do, they are forced to buy it as Sun.

That is a significant advantage of buying Sun in the second round over the first; that no one else can take it from you even if they were of a higher priority.

The player that takes it as Hokom, has the option to choose between three suits before lifting up the two cards that the dealer just gave.

Or it is Sun if the player lifts up the two cards before naming a suit for Hokom.

Bonus: A player declaration Baloot, means that he has the King and the Queen cards of the Judges suit, for example: The Judges cards of Hokom round are Clubs and a player has: Bonus: Notes: While naming the round by one of the teams, The other team may keep silence or say Double (locked or open), The one who bought the card (and only him/her) can raise to Triple.

The Gahwa challenge will end the whole game at once for the round winner.