The Balatro Thread

[Dave A]

I've just had a great game on the Anaglyph deck with Green stake. It's a deck I hadn't done much with so far, concentrating more on earlier decks. But it's great when you get a run going with plenty of double vouchers and then negative jokers or spectral packs come up when you skip a blind.

I was aceing the game with Flush Fives with Jack's of Spades, but then the round it came crashing down on, I would have aced it with anything but the worst luck possible, but it gave me the worst luck possible. I was regularly scoring between 11m and 25m and I need 14.4m. I got a single Flush Five come up and it didn't include any of the high hitting mult and x1.5 cards.

 

[Touring Mars]

I've just had a great game on the Anaglyph deck with Green stake. It's a deck I hadn't done much with so far, concentrating more on earlier decks. But it's great when you get a run going with plenty of double vouchers and then negative jokers or spectral packs come up when you skip a blind.

I was aceing the game with Flush Fives with Jack's of Spades, but then the round it came crashing down on, I would have aced it with anything but the worst luck possible, but it gave me the worst luck possible. I was regularly scoring between 11m and 25m and I need 14.4m. I got a single Flush Five come up and it didn't include any of the high hitting mult and x1.5 cards.

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Great stuff Dave - can't help but notice that spare Justice card..., were you holding out for a second Flush Five hand?

 

[Dave A]

Great stuff Dave - can't help but notice that spare Justice card..., were you holding out for a second Flush Five hand?

Yes, most rounds I was clearing with one or two Flush Fives. I had about 50-60% of my deck was Jack's of Spades. This blind they just weren't being dealt out. I could have made better choices in the blind, but I expected to get more than the one Flush Five and the one I did get was the weakest it could be, not a single enhanced card.

I've had a couple more successful rounds with that deck, and if you get something good a few Antes in it becomes quite easy. Had another run last night where I ended up with 15 negative Jokers. I've still never hit that legendendady Naneinf score without a seeded run.

 

[Wilsonson]

Personally I never continue after winning ante 8 since I'm a bit obsessive and want to "beat" the game asap, ie winning all decks on gold stake and ultimately some day get completionist++ by getting a gold sticker on every joker.

I totally see the allure however. One of my non game beating goals is to get to naninf one day. And even if I never manage that I still want to get a red steel kings build with Mime and Baron online one day (however long it is going to carry me). Like this: