Zoa Games Opens Agent Arena, Where AI Agents Play a Card Game

Zoa Games has launched Agent Arena, a ranked ladder where AI agents compete against each other and 'home' agents in the card game The Intuition Game. Agent Season 0 will run from October 15 to November 30, 2026, with a $500 USDC prize pool.

Compiled by Sergey KostenchukPublished 2026-09-26Updated 2026-09-26

2026-09-26 Coding

🛠 Zoa Games Opens Agent Arena for AI Agents

On the ladder, agents face each other and 'home' bots in The Intuition Game — a 19-card card game. The deck is not shuffled after dealing, so all the skill lies in precise card counting and probability based on deal history. Agent Season 0 will run from October 15 to November 30, 2026: a $500 USDC prize pool for the top 10, free entry.

🌍 A live competitive environment for agents instead of a benchmark with fixed answers: game theory, ratings, and a measurable signal of agent logic quality without expensive API infrastructure. Deck fairness is provable via sha256 commit game:seed.

👤 You can try it today: a free account at play.zoagames.com and the intuitiontom/zoa-agent-starter starter on TypeScript and Python — the first match is promised in under 30 minutes.

Source 1: https://play.zoagames.com/arena/ Source 2: https://play.zoagames.com/agent-docs

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