Ask HN: Getting started writing an AI system these days

A few minutes ago I came up with the idea on writing an AI system capable to participate in an traditional Mexican game with a group of people.

In Mexico (I am from Mexico), lots of people like to play lotería[1]. So I was thinking in the process of writing an AI system that is able to participate in such a game.

It will need to hear the card that is being dealt, bein able to recognize the image in the board, mark the image, and detect whenever there is a winning position.

Most likely there are software implementations playing this game, but I think this is a cool project to get me started (once more) in AI capabilities.

What resources would you guys recommend me to get me started? Now, I am not interested in training a model because I am thinking already trained systems are capable to recognize objects even in the way the drawings are portrayed in this lottery.

Perhaps this is too much for a starter project and I should focus in a system being able to play Tic-Tac-Toe.

Thanks a lot and happy weekend!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loter%C3%ADa