You don't want to get too attached to your deck: some jokers are viable only through the middle antes, and you'll want to replace them eventually, usually in favor of ones that don't have a cap on them, and for the really big hands, as many XMults as you can find.
― Costas Mandylorian (Leee), Thursday, 9 May 2024 13:26 (three weeks ago) link
Madness is pretty good fun, keep feeding him those other joker cards and watch your multiplier build!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 9 May 2024 13:57 (three weeks ago) link
dog latin do you have a certain kind of hand you're leaning on in these runs?
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 May 2024 14:45 (three weeks ago) link
also, small comfort but as you play the game you'll keep unlocking more jokers and vouchers and other stuff, many of which make the game a little easier
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 May 2024 14:46 (three weeks ago) link
dog latin do you have a certain kind of hand you're leaning on in these runs?― z_tbd, Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:45 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― z_tbd, Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:45 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
ummm... not especially.. doesn't it all depend on what cards and boons you get? or am i missing an essential mechanic? I think I shut the game down halfway through the tutorial when i first booted it up, so i only learned about half of it
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Thursday, 9 May 2024 14:55 (three weeks ago) link
Madness doesn't need to eat other jokers to build. It's possible to win early stakes with a madness joker and some high hand levels.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 9 May 2024 15:35 (three weeks ago) link
Just finished a plasma deck run on the purple stake:
https://imgur.com/a/g2kkMmK
Bull + Blueprint + Brainstorm + Mail-in Rebate early on carried me very quickly through basically all the antes since I could triple my chip stack at any time. My only other Joker was Supernova, which I used to Mult high cards.
― Costas Mandylorian (Leee), Friday, 10 May 2024 20:50 (three weeks ago) link
i can't believe i'm still playing this game. i'm way behind most people who have put in the time i have (about 120 hours), but i just beat blue stake with Abandoned Deck, so i suppose i'm trying to at least take down purple, orange, and gold stakes before i throw in the towel.
i haven't really used the madness card too much, but it really starts to come in handy once the eternal cards come into play! in my last run i had 4 eternal cards + madness, so every blind it would just gain X0.5 without destroying any of my (pretty weak) other jokers
― z_tbd, Sunday, 12 May 2024 16:22 (three weeks ago) link
Got all the way to the boss blind on ante 8. But it was The Wall (the one with the extra big ante). I got surprisingly close to beating it but alas...
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Sunday, 12 May 2024 21:29 (three weeks ago) link
Trying to complete gold stake with every deck (in my case plasma) has entirely killed my desire to play anymore.
― The Mandymoorian (Leee), Tuesday, 14 May 2024 16:57 (two weeks ago) link
Finally beat the red deck! Wahoo!
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 00:56 (two weeks ago) link
I think in this case I concentrated all my celestials on pair but using the joker that scores all the cards you play.I also had the joker that gives you a bigger hand and no discards, which is pretty underrated in fact. Then I had it retrigger face cards while adding a bunch of boons through steel and glass cards. Well, it worked. It also meant that playing was a doddle - I just had to have a pair in my hand and I could just play my strongest cards next to them without having to think too much
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 01:01 (two weeks ago) link
This game is most fun when not having to think much imo. High-card build with bonkers jokers the best way about it
― H.P, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 03:41 (two weeks ago) link
i finally started playing this instead of just watching my roommate play it. could not get past ante 6 with any deck... until last night, when my combo of jokers was so good i got to ante 12 with the red deck
― ivy., Wednesday, 15 May 2024 03:53 (two weeks ago) link
my hand of choice was straight, which i upgraded to a ridiculous extent thanks to the space joker
― ivy., Wednesday, 15 May 2024 03:59 (two weeks ago) link
I find straights the hardest hands to get consistently. I only bother with them on the deck with no face cards.
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 05:18 (two weeks ago) link
straight is pretty dang good if you get Four Fingers and Shortcut
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 06:59 (two weeks ago) link
i dunno, i seem to get straights more than things like four of a kind
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:21 (two weeks ago) link
straights are more likely than 4 of a kind, the hierarchy of scoring is in order of the probability, so flushes are slightly more rare than straights, full houses more rare than flushes etc. etc.
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 09:24 (two weeks ago) link
in poker, but not in a game where you can edit the decks
― adam t. (abanana), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 12:19 (two weeks ago) link
yes v true
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 15 May 2024 12:35 (two weeks ago) link
The spectral card which changes all the cards to the same rank is very helpful for 4 and 5 of a kind, and potentially flush five as well
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 13:48 (two weeks ago) link
ok this game is ruining my life but i finally beat gold stake (with abandoned deck). that's the first time i ran across a Wee Joker (add +8 chips every time a 2 is scored) early on, and i combined it with DNA to create many, many 2s, and the Ride the Bus joker is perfect for abandoned deck so the mults were crackin
― z_tbd, Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:08 (two weeks ago) link
Wee Joker was adding 650+ chips by the end of ante 8!
sorry. this game...it's not right
― z_tbd, Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:09 (two weeks ago) link
This rocks so dang hard pic.twitter.com/xckNR6yvG7— localthunk (@LocalThunk) May 15, 2024
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link
Yeah the game was literally breaking my sleep cycles -- I'd wake up super-early (4-6am) without being able to go back to sleep because I *had* to play. I'm kind of glad gold stake turned me off because now my sleep has gotten loads better.
― The Mandymoorian (Leee), Thursday, 16 May 2024 17:24 (two weeks ago) link
I finally won gold stake. Madness on ante 1, plus 3 eternal X-multiplier jokers. More luck than skill.
― adam t. (abanana), Thursday, 30 May 2024 15:11 (three days ago) link