Joker? BALATRO know her!

dog latin do you have a certain kind of hand you're leaning on in these runs?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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...

Trying to complete gold stake with every deck (in my case plasma) has entirely killed my desire to play anymore.

Finally beat the red deck! Wahoo!

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

This game is most fun when not having to think much imo. High-card build with bonkers jokers the best way about it

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

my hand of choice was straight, which i upgraded to a ridiculous extent thanks to the space joker

I find straights the hardest hands to get consistently. I only bother with them on the deck with no face cards.

straight is pretty dang good if you get Four Fingers and Shortcut

i dunno, i seem to get straights more than things like four of a kind

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.

in poker, but not in a game where you can edit the decks

yes v true

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

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

Wee Joker was adding 650+ chips by the end of ante 8!

sorry. this game...it's not right

This rocks so dang hard pic.twitter.com/xckNR6yvG7

— localthunk (@LocalThunk) May 15, 2024

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.

I finally won gold stake. Madness on ante 1, plus 3 eternal X-multiplier jokers. More luck than skill.